Comment by embedding-shape
2 days ago
Can't do much about that when there is something you're troubleshooting about the CI platform itself. Say you're troubleshooting why the deployment doesn't work, somehow got the environment variable wrong for whatever reason. So you edit and add a "env | sort" before that, commit it, push it, so on. With "rebuilt with ssh", you literally are inside the "job" as it runs.
Yes you can't really debug CI specific stuff locally, like if your setting up build caching or something. But it seems like 90%+ of the time people are complaining about builds/tests that should have local feedback loops.
Yeah, fair point, I see that a lot in the wild too. I guess I kind of assumed we all here had internalized the practice of isolating everything into one command that runs remotely, like "make test" or whatever, rather than what some people do and put entire shellscripts-but-yaml in their pipeline configs.
Yeah everytime I see logic in YAML I cringe. Trying at work to get people to use a task runner or even call out to scripts was a fight...