Context# Act is a local runner for GitHub Actions workflows. It works with the Docker containerization engine to create containers as local runners for your workflows. It’s a good productivity tool for testing your CI/CD pipelines because instead of creating another git branch, pushing it to the repository, and trying to execute it using the dreaded workflow_dispatch trigger, you can simply run it in your CLI! The main problem of the manual execution approach is due to pushing multiple commits to the remote repository.
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