An article that saved me some time yesterday.

It's about how to append custom paths to the $PATH variable on a GitHub Actions runner. As you may guess, it's not simply $PATH.

However, you can do it as below:

 - run: echo "${HOME}/<YOUR_CUSTOM_BIN>" >> $GITHUB_PATH

#cicd #gha

Here is the awesome list of GitHub Actions both official and community-driven.

So, if you were looking into working with GHA, that might be a good thing to check. Also, if you're using GHA already, you may find some common actions to remove some repeated lines of code in your pipelines.

P.S. If you are not interested in GitHub Actions, but still adore the idea of YAML based CI, I just want to remind you that you can use YAML to configure Jenkins pipelines as well

#cicd #github #gha #jenkins

S3 cache for GitHub Actions - a drop-in replacement for the native GHA cache functionality that is technically unlimited because of S3.

I haven’t used it personally and I don’t have an AWS account to test it. This thing comes as a part of RunsOn - a solution to setup your self-hosted runners for GHA in AWS.

Might be worth checking if you want to bring your own worker nodes to GHA but don’t want the hustle configuring them.

#github #gha #cicd