Designing containers for GitHub actions

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GitHub Actions

GitHub actions are workflows triggered by GitHub events. They are quite flexible, they run by default in "bare" operating system runners, but, additionally, they can be hosted in user-provided containers. The problem is, GitHub expect these containers to have certain services and structure, which is a problem is you use a standard or plain container.

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BusyBox

Alpine is an amazing little distro for containers, but part of its appeal comes from the fact that it puts a lot of external utilities into BusyBox, and that includes tar. However, in an apparently undocumented move, the caching GHA uses BSD or GNU tar for storing and restoring artifacts. That means it's needed in your container. Check above:.

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