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		cmckn on Nov 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Act: Run your GitHub Actions locally It’d be great if act could build its container images locally instead of downloading them through a rate-limited pipe from docker hub. The full size image (~14gb) takes the better part of a day to download; I’ve never been able to wait it out on my work laptop.

mdaniel on Nov 26, 2022 | [–]

If your Internet is so bad, this might not help you, but it's possible to build them locally: https://github.com/nektos/act-environments#building-images

cmckn on Nov 26, 2022 | | [–]

I have a gigabit connection, docker hub just won’t give me the bits fast enough :( thanks for the link!

edgan on Nov 27, 2022 | [–]

You should try pulling it from gcr.io.

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