GitHub Actions and containers

 April 17, 2023

GitHub Actions allows the use of containers with different Operating Systems. Although, it does not mean that everything is seamless when you are using them. I’ve discovered this the hard way! Below are my findings and the process I followed to make the GitHub Action pipeline work properly with containers. It all started with the addition of a new tool in the pipeline, which was not installable on Ubuntu (the GitHub Actions default operating system), due to a packaging issue.