[Feature] There should be a way for a local developer to know if a change will pass CI gates

[peternied]

Description

There are many checks used by the PR workflow that validate different aspects of incoming changes. There are hygiene scans, code correctness, code coverage, backward compatibility and DCO. It would be useful to have a way to run all the checks for this repository on your local machine.

What alternatives can be considered?

GitHub Action workflows execute all of the different scans and tests, these can continue to be used.

Additional Context

• From discussion on [Enchancement] Removed dependency between "test" and "jacocoTestReport" #2935

[stephen-crawford]

[Triage] This change seems like a reasonable potential change that someone interested in infrastructure could make. Specifically, we could see additions to the precommit workflow. Labeling good first issue and help wanted.

[prabhask5]

@peternied @scrawfor99 There appears to be another opensource tool called act, that seems to solve this problem completely, but requires an outside download and the download of docker. Is this a valid solution, or do you want something completely built into the repo?

[stephen-crawford]

Hey @prabhask5, we are looking for something inside OpenSearch. Using act executes the github actions locally but does not work without docker.