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"GitHub CI is easy", he said. "It's just bash ", he said.
(programming.dev)
Until he actually had to use it.
Took 2 hours of reading through examples just to deploy the site.
Turns out, it is hard to do even just the bash stuff when you can't see the container.
We have all of our build and CI in
makeso, theoretically, all the CI system needs to do is run a single command. Then I try to run the command on a CI server, it is missing an OS package (and their package manager version is a major version behind so I need to download a pre-built binary from the project site). Then the tests get kill for using too much memory. Then, after I reduce resource limits, the tests time out…I am grateful that we use CircleCI as our SaaS CICD and they let me SSH on to a test container so I can see what is going on.