Company
Date Published
Aug. 5, 2022
Author
Valérian Galliat
Word count
1766
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

GitHub Actions is a popular tool for CI/CD tasks due to its tight integration with GitHub and simplicity. However, it lacks the "rerun job with SSH" feature found in CircleCI, which allows users to debug live test environments by exposing an SSH server. Debugging issues that occur only on CI can be challenging without this feature. To address this issue, action-sshd-cloudflared was created, enabling SSH access to GitHub Actions workflow containers. The solution uses a relay host like Cloudflare Tunnel to connect to the VM running the workflow. This allows users to debug issues that occur only on CI and helps in setting up GitHub Actions for an app when unfamiliar with the environment.