How can I exécuter GitHub Actions workflows locally?

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I am planning to move our Travis CI build to GitHub Actions using Docker for our per-commit testing.

Can I reproducibly run these new GitHub Actions workflows locally? Is there a generic way to run any GitHub Actions workflow locally?

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There are tools like:

local runners for GitHub and other CI/CD systems (like Jenkins, CircleCI, Bitbucket)

already-mentioned act

Unfortunately they are not perfect for fast "fix-test-fix-test-…" development cycle (typical even simple CI pipeline takes anything from tens of seconds to even many minutes).
My solution for these problems is:

  • avoid functionalities provided by your CI tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)

  • write as much as possible in a CI-agnostic way (Bash scripts, PowerShell scripts, Gradle scripts, NPM scripts, Dockerfiles, Ansible scripts - anything you know)

  • invoke those scripts from your CI tool. In GitHub Actions: run: your command to run

  • if you need pre-deployment approvals done CI-agnostic way, look at this answer