{"id":200,"date":"2021-02-21T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sycured.127.0.0.1.sslip.io\/?p=200"},"modified":"2024-01-13T20:36:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T01:36:54","slug":"from-travis-ci-to-github-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/10.42.0.68:8080\/blog\/from-travis-ci-to-github-actions","title":{"rendered":"From Travis CI to GitHub Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You&#8217;ll know why I&#8217;m migrating from <a href=\"https:\/\/travis-ci.com\/\">Travis CI<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/features\/actions\">GitHub Actions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was happy with Travis CI but I needed one feature<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Travis CI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cost for open source repositories<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When you&#8217;ve not validated with Travis CI about your open-source repository, you don&#8217;t have <em>OSS-only credits<\/em>.<br>In that case, you&#8217;re using the <strong>10000 credits<\/strong> included with the <strong>Free plan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this time, I&#8217;ve nearly 44% used this month so it&#8217;s moderate usage and my biggest repository (aiokafka) doesn&#8217;t use Travis CI but GitHub Actions otherwise I&#8217;ll be out of credits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Very slow\u2026 cost more credits<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not a joke but reality\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On my latex-builder, my latex build (executing the shell script) is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Travis CI: 271.96 seconds (<a href=\"https:\/\/travis-ci.com\/github\/sycured\/latex-builder\/jobs\/484854568#L208\">link to the line inside the log<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GitHub Actions: 3 minutes 27 seconds to 207 seconds (<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sycured\/latex-builder\/runs\/1946841276\">link to the log<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I win 64.96 seconds, it&#8217;s good\u2026 Remember that 1 minute of a run is 10 credits on Travis CI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GitHub Actions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GitHub loves Open Source repositories<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlimited builds for open source repositories and I love it, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sycured\/aiokafka\">aiokafka<\/a> has a cost of 0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My two latest builds are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>main: 22 minutes 35 seconds (<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sycured\/aiokafka\/actions\/runs\/525971546\">link to the build<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>develop: 16 minutes 23 seconds (<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sycured\/aiokafka\/actions\/runs\/526580579\">link to the build<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of time because tests include Linux, Mac, and Windows\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On-Premise<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>GitHub Actions has a runner available to install on all operating systems to send jobs to self-hosted hardware and it was the ultimate thing to invite me to migrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only counterpart is a requirement, this f*cking Docker daemon. I needed to find the right host to install it because I use, exclusively, <a href=\"https:\/\/podman.io\/\">Podman<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Look at the change<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at how it&#8217;s a lot different between Travis CI and GitHub Actions on a private repo (my CV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Travis CI (old CI)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>language: minimal\ndist: focal\n\ngit:\n  quiet: true\n\nservices: docker\n\naddons:\n  apt:\n    update: true\n    packages:\n      - rclone\n\nbefore_script:\n  - mkdir -p ~\/.config\/rclone\n  - echo $rclone_b64 | base64 -d &gt; ~\/.config\/rclone\/rclone.conf\n  - docker pull ghcr.io\/sycured\/latex-builder:latest\n\nscript:\n  - docker run --rm -v $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR:\/shared -v \/tmp:\/tmp ghcr.io\/sycured\/latex-builder:latest\n\nafter_success:\n  - bash -c \"rclone copy \/tmp\/build_cv\/cv-en.pdf $objstore:\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GitHub Actions (new CI)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>name: ci\non:\n  push:\n    branches:\n      - main\n\njobs:\n  build:\n    runs-on: &#91;self-hosted, Linux, oraclecloud]\n    container:\n      image: ghcr.io\/sycured\/latex-builder:latest\n    steps:\n      - name: Checkout\n        uses: actions\/checkout@v2\n      - name: Install rclone config file\n        env:\n          rconf: ${{ secrets.RCLONE_CONF }}\n        run: |\n          echo \"$rconf\" | base64 -d &gt; \/rclone.conf\n      - name: Build\n        run: .\/run.sh\n      - name: Send pdf to objstore\n        env:\n          objstore: ${{ secrets.S3 }}\n        run: \"rclone --config \/rclone.conf copy \/tmp\/build_cv\/cv-en.pdf $objstore:\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>I run it on one self-hosted runner, a Linux host, and hosted at Oracle Cloud (I added this label to remember where it hosted the VM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another point, I can run directly all my steps inside my container and it&#8217;s a lot more interesting than doing a docker run followed by a lot of docker exec for another repo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>No pain, no gain!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ll know why I&#8217;m migrating from Travis CI to GitHub Actions. 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