9 alternatives to act

nektos/act — Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀 (72,397 stars, MIT, infra, automation, database).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 81 licence-cleared components from nektos/act itself.

The alternatives in detail

• actions/actions-runner-controller
  Kubernetes controller for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners
  score 7.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 6,594 stars · 128 components · search them
• actions/runner-images
  GitHub Actions runner images
  score 6.7/10 · MIT permissive · 13,528 stars · 12 components · search them
• pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish
  The blessed :octocat: GitHub Action, for publishing your :package: distribution files to PyPI, the tokenless way: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/pypi-publish
  score 6.7/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 1,185 stars · 6 components · search them
• go-gitea/gitea
  Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD
  score 7.1/10 · MIT permissive · 58,596 stars · 2,198 components · search them · alternatives
• ncarlier/webhookd
  A minimalist, powerful webhook server designed to easily trigger shell scripts and run external processes via HTTP requests.
  score 8.0/10 · MIT permissive · 1,104 stars · 53 components · search them
• semaphoreui/semaphore
  Modern UI and powerful API for Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu/Terragrunt, PowerShell and other DevOps tools.
  score 6.8/10 · MIT permissive · 14,325 stars · 547 components · search them
• kutalia/electron-speech-to-speech
  Electron speech-to-speech app for your voice calls based on 100% locally run AI models
  score 6.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 36 stars · 27 components · search them
• netlify/build
  Netlify Build (node process) runs the build command, Build Plugins and bundles Netlify Functions. Can be run in Buildbot or locally using Netlify CLI
  score 7.1/10 · MIT permissive · 260 stars · 17 components · search them
• dagger/dagger
  Automation engine to build, test and ship any codebase. Runs locally, in CI, or directly in the cloud
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 16,490 stars · 1,978 components · search them

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