How to run GitHub Actions workflows locally?

Question

I am planning to move our Travis CI build to GitHub Actions using Docker for our per-commit testing.

Can I reproducibly run these new GitHub Actions workflows locally? I

Answer 1

your best bet is https://github.com/nektos/act however it doesn't support yaml syntax yet, though there is a lot of interest aka: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/80 https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/76 and https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/74

Gitlab has gitlab-runner exec docker job-name but that's Gitlab :)