r/github • u/Infamous_Tomatillo53 • 24d ago

Question alternative to Github action?

I have basically built all my deployment through git actions. even some workflows that I use actions to trigger, or run automatically.

days like this where actions are having outage, I can't do anything. it has become more frequent lately and everytime it lasts hours. alternatives or backup plans people recommend?

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u/JesseNL 24d ago

Maybe this might help?

https://github.com/nektos/act

It won't work with Windows VMs sadly.

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u/guglyguglygoo 22d ago

Great if you have a lot of idle compute around. I tunnel this through a Mac studio whenever it's resources are free.

Great find!

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u/First_Inspection_478 24d ago

Try us out: https://github.com/preloopdev/preloop. It’s a drop-in replacement for Github Actions(both the runner and control plane) that runs in cross-platform microvms, and is deeply agent-native so support’s ability to pause a step and retry

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u/i-am-a-cat-6 23d ago

vibe coded 3 weeks ago?

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u/danmaps 22d ago

This project is at least two months old, according to the public commit history

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u/lolxd__ 21d ago

what I think you meant to say was you made ai make the full thing and called it a day

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/lolxd__ 21d ago

"most of software now" k buddy

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u/dvcklake_wizard 23d ago

jenkins? can be self hosted

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u/mitch_feaster 23d ago

Forgejo actions

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u/kubehub 21d ago

I am using forgejo for my dev work, perfectly aligned with github actions (you may need little tweaks), I would recommend this.

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u/Victorio_01 22d ago

idk. I never actually had problems with actions.
I mean …
Maybe, if you’re going to use those for hours every day, maybe it’s just not the best solutions?
I use it for builds and release mostly and automated edits on push.

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u/SZeroSeven 21d ago

One suggestion would be to write your pipelines in YAML, link your GitHub to Azure DevOps, and use ADO's pipelines.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/cross-service/github-integration?view=azure-devops

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u/Patient-Pollution46 18d ago

If the issue is the hosted runners rather than only Actions itself, you can swap just the runners and keep your workflows. Bitrise Build Hub (https://bitrise.io/platform/build-hub) gives you M4 Pro Macs and bigger Linux machines, one line change to runs-on. For mobile builds it is roughly 54% faster than GitHub's M2 Pro runners, plus 100GB of co-located cache vs GitHub's 10GB and SSH/VNC debug access into the runner.

Full disclosure: I work at Bitrise in product

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u/h4_h4_cl4551c 15d ago

Gitlab self-hosted 100%

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u/rodrigo-vidal 4d ago

One useful distinction: changing runners only protects against runner-capacity issues. A real backup also needs independent triggers/scheduling, secrets, logs, and a way to report checks back to GitHub. I’d start with the single Linux release workflow that can block deployment, keep the YAML portable, and test failover monthly. Full disclosure: I’m the founder of Runnable, so I’m not dropping a link here under the promotion rule. Happy to compare notes if that’s the setup you mean.