alt Hacker News100% don't understand why people think github actions are terrible.
everything else is trash.
Github Actions changed the landscape.
They're composable.
The only two other things that come close is Concourse.CI and CircleCi.... and circle-ci is 100% trash
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We use Gitlab for CI/CD and tbh it is amazing. Simple, predictable, debuggable.
Versioning sucks (the references are mutable), debugging sucks, you cant run them locally.
I think I agree with you that:
- everything else is trash.
- Github Actions changed the landscape.
- They're composable.
And I still hate github actions! Aside from anything else, they have one major flaw, which is there is no good development/test loop for writing them.
If you write most of your CICD in some kind of script, then you can run it locally, and do some basic checks around environment etc before deploying.
If you write most of your CICD in github actions or any alternative, you will be doomed to push 100 commits with messages like "maybe be?", "hmmm. . ." before eventually squashing them all down when it turns out several hours later that you mispelt an environment variable.
Thumbs up on Concourse CI: I like seeing all my builds at once on any easy-to-read dashboard. That’s why we switched from GitHub actions: the dashboard.
Github Actions is a cobbled together mess. It is mainly based on Azure DevOps Pipelines and still has some glaring bugs and wildly inefficient parts.
If it works for you, great. But it is far from being good.