Last night Github appears to have released a big update to the Github Actions workflow user interface.
While there has not been a post on the Github changelog about this yet, the Github roadmap does list #88 Actions: Workflow visualization as feature that was slotted for Github Enterprise customers but became a release for all users as of mid-October.
Here’s a comparison of a workflow detail view as of yesterday versus today on the same Github Actions workflow. (Note, I also run refined-github so you may notice unrelated style improvements in some elements):
My primary concern with this view was not only related to the visual presentation of workflow, which I had already tried to mend using stylebot) but that the data output from individual jobs in workflows was disappearing and required unexpected refresh.
There is also a new brand new Workflow Summary tab:
In this project, I’m working entirely with Self-Hosted Runners that have a fairly detailed CI/CD requirement.
My other projects use Github runners, and I think Github Actions is a major improvement in delivering CI/CD to projects and takes advantage of the resources provided by the Microsoft acquisition via Azure.
If I have time, I’ll offer a more detailed analysis of the change. For now, you can see my previous writing on Running Django Tests in Github Actions.