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Couler vs GitHub Actions: What are the differences?
Couler: Unified interface for constructing and managing workflows on different workflow engines. It aims to provide a unified interface for constructing and managing workflows on different workflow engines, such as Argo Workflows, Tekton Pipelines, and Apache Airflow; GitHub Actions: Automate your workflow from idea to production. It makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD. Build, test, and deploy your code right from GitHub. Make code reviews, branch management, and issue triaging work the way you want.
Couler can be classified as a tool in the "Workflow Manager" category, while GitHub Actions is grouped under "Continuous Integration".
Some of the features offered by Couler are:
- Unified interface and imperative programming style for defining workflows with automatic construction of directed acyclic graph (DAG)
- Extensible to support various workflow engines
- Reusable steps for tasks such as distributed training of machine learning models
On the other hand, GitHub Actions provides the following key features:
- Multiple workflow files support
- Free and open source
- Workflow run interface
Pros of Couler
Pros of GitHub Actions
- Integration with GitHub8
- Free5
- Easy to duplicate a workflow3
- Ready actions in Marketplace3
- Configs stored in .github2
- Docker Support2
- Read actions in Marketplace2
- Active Development Roadmap1
- Fast1
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Cons of Couler
Cons of GitHub Actions
- Lacking [skip ci]5
- Lacking allow failure4
- Lacking job specific badges3
- No ssh login to servers2
- No Deployment Projects1
- No manual launch1