I've mentioned this before on HN, but `act` was completely unusable for me when I tried it. Tons of errors that required digging deep into the code to understand, missing features… has it improved over time? It seems very useful and I gave it a solid try at the time (maybe a year ago), but just had to give up after a few hours.
edit: I decided to upgrade and give it a try, went from 0.2.21 to 0.2.25 (Mar 30, 2021 → Nov 24, 2021). It's still failing to run a basic "build and test" pipeline, and really not doing anything fancy: apt-get install + make + ./service + ./tests.py, with a Redis sidecar. This seems to be because services are not supported in `act`: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/173
edit: I decided to upgrade and give it a try, went from 0.2.21 to 0.2.25 (Mar 30, 2021 → Nov 24, 2021). It's still failing to run a basic "build and test" pipeline, and really not doing anything fancy: apt-get install + make + ./service + ./tests.py, with a Redis sidecar. This seems to be because services are not supported in `act`: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/173