Company
Date Published
Author
Ethan Dennis
Word count
1977
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

GitHub has launched a public preview of GitHub Actions Importer, a tool designed to streamline the migration process from existing CI/CD systems to GitHub Actions, particularly beneficial for organizations with extensive CI/CD setups. This tool simplifies the migration by offering distinct phases, including planning, auditing, and forecasting, to assess existing CI/CD usage and facilitate the transition. GitHub Actions Importer can automatically convert over 90% of tasks, although some workflows may require manual adjustments, particularly for secrets, self-hosted runners, and unsupported build steps. It offers a command-line interface for auditing and forecasting current CI/CD usage, helping organizations plan their migration strategy by analyzing pipeline complexity and compute capacity. Custom transformers can be developed for tasks that cannot be automatically converted, and the tool supports a dry-run feature to validate conversions before actual migration. GitHub also provides a self-serve migration option using IssueOps, allowing organizations to perform migrations without installing GitHub Actions Importer locally.