Perl in CI/CD workflows: Yes you can!

Juan Julián Merelo-Guervós

Playlists: 'gpw2021' videos starting here / audio

Perl is buried, but only because it's underneath everything and nobody ever bothered to dig for it. Since it's in every Debian, and most Ubuntu LTS distributions, it's readily available to use. Besides, default systems include a good amount of libraries you can use in your workflows.
In this talk, we will show how you can use perl in "bare" (without explicitly selecting perl or a container) CI/CD workflows, what kind of tricks you can use to speed them up, and how you can improve your experience with CPAN modules such as GitHub::Actions

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