Portable CI/CD with pure Go GitHub Actions
I recently converted the govim project to use GitHub Actions. The move away from TravisCI was largely motivated by more generous concurrency limits (GitHub’s 20 jobs vs TravisCI’s 5), faster job startup times, and solid cross-platform support. But there was also the promise of making it easy to extend workflows with composable third-party actions. This post demonstrates how to write cross-platform, pure Go GitHub actions that you can use in your workflows and share with others. But first we start by motivating the real problem we are trying to solve.