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		thatxliner 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again How would you set up tool installations? Inside the CI or inside the script?

atkbrah 11 months ago [–]

In our environment (our product is a windows desktop application) we use packer to build a custom windows server 2022 image with all the required tools installed. Build agents run on a azure vm scale set that uses the said image for the instance os.

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