actions-vms

Short-living VMs abusing Github Actions for testing all kinds of things. 👀

How to use

1. Fork this repository
2. Set the fork to private for security reasons¹
3. Navigate to the "Actions" tab and enable Github Actions for your fork
4. Select one of the workflows and press the "Run workflow" button
5. Wait until the workflow logs a message similar to Web shell: https://tmate.io/t/xyz, then open that link
6. You might have to press Control+C once to use the web terminal
7. You can now use the web terminal to test any kinds of things on the Github Actions machine

Note: every workflow automatically stops after 15 minutes to prevent stale or forgotten workflows from wasting minutes.
You can change this by editing the timeout-minutes field in the workflow file.

Credits

This repository is mostly just a wrapper around https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate.

Footnotes

1. Note that private repositories do not have unlimited workflow minutes and thus using the scripts here frequently may cost you money. ↩