What does HackerNews think of earthly?
Super simple build framework with fast, repeatable builds and an instantly familiar syntax – like Dockerfile and Makefile had a baby.
I want to be able to run my all of CI workflows on my local machine.
I agree with other commenters that most of what CI does should be abstracted out into scripts or other non-CI tools. Unfortunately it's not easy to do that for large pre-existing CI setups, especially if a different team is the one maintaining your CI workflows.
Earthly is a modern build solution that is similar to a sandboxed makefile. It works with your existing CI and the #1 reason people use it today is to able to reproduce a CI build locally.
Today we promoted a number of important features to GA status in our 0.6 release including:
- WITH DOCKER : Earthly can execute any number of containers in parallel, via an isolated Docker daemon that it starts up within.
- User-Defined Commands: Extract common repetitive build steps into a command you can use across your projects.
- Shared Cache: Earthly v0.6 now provides shared caching. This extends our existing build caching to work in ephemeral CI runners by storing the cache in regular container registries.
Let me know what you think! Feature requests always welcome :)
Earthly lets you abstract anything you do inside a container into an Earthfile, that runs locally on a dev's machine, but also in any CI, making CI scripts more portable. However, testing other CI-specific things before committing, such as GitLab rules dictating when jobs actually run, remain unsolved. But they also remain unsolved with this glci solution, right?
https://github.com/earthly/earthly
Disclaimer: I am Earthly's creator.