GitHub Actions outage told devs 'your account is suspended'
Another day, another GitHub wobble - but the service keeps growing
GitHub Actions, a service which builds, tests and deployscode, was down for more than three hours yesterday, accompanied by an alarming and incorrect error message that stated that "Your account is suspended."
The impact of an outage in the code shack's Actions service can be greater than one that affects access to code repositories, because while developers can continueworking with code on their local machine, there is no quick way to avoidActions embedded in a CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous deployment)workflow.
"As the person on call for Continuous Integration teamin my company, using Github is very stressful. Our CI is currently basicallyblocked," saidone impacted user.
The outage was first reported by users at around 1030 UTC on May 26, thoughthe official incidentreport began at 1057 UTC, describing "degraded performance forActions and Pages."
This description was later revised to state that...
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