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Agreed. I cannot believe that GCP and AWS are so asleep at the wheel either. If I were them I would literally be throwing money at some of the GitHub folks to h
by cjdu 6y ago
Agreed. I cannot believe that GCP and AWS are so asleep at the wheel either. If I were them I would literally be throwing money at some of the GitHub folks to have them fix AWS or GCP.
And it was should have been rather obvious when GitHub released the beta of Actions a few years ago. Actions remains the most important thing GitHub has done, ever, in my opinion. It might take a few more years for people to fully realize what this could be. Hope GitHub doesn't screw it up!
- irrational 6y agoWhat is Actions?
- Someone1234 6y agoContinuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) services. Essentially when you merge a changeset you can configure a specific branch to automatically test, package, deploy, and integration test that branch with no additional human intervention.
- Thaxll 6y agoAWS has that.
- jlisam13 6y agothat's just a subset of the features you can develop with actions
- irrational 6y agoSo Actions is similar to Jenkins?
- bastardoperator 6y agominus the infrastructure, maintenance burden, and plugin hell
- chocolatkey 6y agohttps://github.com/features/actions https://github.com/features/actions
- fingerprinter 6y agoWorkflow automation w/ built in CI/CD, package management and code scanning etc. The most important bit is workflow automation. It can be triggered on most (all?) events github emits https://help.github.com/en/actions/reference/events-that-trigger-workflows https://help.github.com/en/actions/reference/events-that-tri... It was super obvious the value prop when it was HCL based. YAML based it kind of looks more like 'another CI'. It's still insanely powerful, just not as developer friendly anymore.
- manigandham 6y agoThere are dozens of CI/CD offerings and many are better designed than Github actions, including Gitlab's CI runners. I don't see what paying Github would do for AWS or GCP. They both have their own code repos, build pipelines, container registries, and more. Even Azure has its own DevOps product.
- jjeaff 6y agoI use Gitlab's CI runners and I agree. However, I am pretty excited about the direction that Github is going with their actions. Having a directory of user created actions and integrations seems like gold to me and I hope Gitlab starts leaning that way soon.
- hn_throwaway_99 6y agoI agree, but GitHub must fix the security nightmare that is waiting to happen with GitHub actions marketplace. Seems like this would be such an easy fix, too.
- pknopf 6y agoOrganizations can enforce that their repos use only actions that are within the repo, making the build more secure, controlled and auditable.
- chairmanwow1 6y agoIt's all about the ease of use. Manually setting up CI/CD is _hard_ and requires a team to maintain and support it. Whether through a home-rolled Jenkins deployment or Buildkite.