testcontainers / testcontainers/testcontainers-java
Consider using GitHub Actions as a primary CI
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Description
With the release of GitHub Actions CI/CD, it works perfectly fine with Testcontainers and can be used to run our tests.
Since we're working on migrating off Travis as our primary CI (see #1720), we need to consider which service to use instead, and GHA (GitHub Actions) looks like a good choice. It looks like Azure Pipelines (and AFAIK uses it under the hood) but does not come with Enterprise-style UI and users management, which is IMO better for an OSS project.
However, there are a few things in AZP (Azure Pipelines) that we still benefit from (listing them as checkboxes so that we can check them once there is such feature in GHA):
- self-hosted agents - we run our own agent for Docker for Windows CI due to licensing issues of Docker for Windows
- test result aggregation - sounds small, but this dramatically reduces the time it takes to figure out why the build is failing and also helped us to pinpoint a few flaky tests
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing Travis and Azure Pipelines setup and the migration context in issue #1720. Determine whether GitHub Actions can provide the required self-hosted Docker for Windows agents and test result aggregation; done means the primary CI migration preserves the needed capabilities.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- docker, github-actions
- Domain
- ci-cd, devops, testing-qa
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100