Hi, I’ve started thinking about moving away from GitHub actions myself, and was wondering what else was out there that fulfills a bunch of these needs. Feedback I got and some brief research turned up Woodpecker CI[0]
[0]: https://woodpecker-ci.org/ On Apr 13, 2026, at 04:34, Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]> wrote: > These probably go together. > > I think it's important that you can self-host. Even with cirrus-ci I actually > wished there was an easy way to run the jobs locally. I don't know how often > I'd really do it, but especially developing and testing the ci yaml files is > painful when you can't run it locally. While Woodpecker promotes its Docker images, esp. for integration with Codeberg and other Forgejo services, it’s a Go app so compiles for quite a lot of platforms, and has a “local mode” in which, from what I understand, you can run it on whatever trusted hardware you’d like. So if we have, say, a Mac Mini plus an arm and amd system capable of virtualizing Linux, BSD, etc., perhaps we’d be able to get the coverage we need and host the results in a self-hosted Woodpecker service? As I say, I’ve just started to kind of cast about for alternatives, so don’t know a lot about it myself, but on the surface it looks promising. Best, David
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