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We use Azure Devops at my current gig. It works pretty well for our setup. I've used GHA before; it definitely didn't "spark joy". I ~~wasted~~spent way too many hours in the "update yaml file, commit, push, wait 5 minutes for it to fail again" ~~spiral of despair~~feedback loop.
Nice thing with ADO is its release dashboard -- you get a really nice summary of recent builds and where they went:
$project - dev - test - prod
I didn't see anything similar for GHA.
A lot of that pain can be reduced by writing and running your code locally before pushing it to a CI environment. Generally with our automation we write a CLI, And GitHub actions is just an execution environment that calls the CLI.
And if what you're trying to do must execute inside an action. You can run workflows locally with docker!
That's a great idea if it's possible, but I want to say it wouldn't have helped with our environment at the time.
I almost wish I could look back at that repo and share the yaml file here, maybe I was missing something back then. I'm certainly more proficient with yaml now.
I do recall wishing there was a way to simulate the execution locally. I think I remember hearing about a local runner, but it had too many caveats to help.