Run tests on CI with LXC container #989
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We were running provisioning and deploy through a local connection on the Github runner itself. But when we upgrade to Ubuntu 22 and higher, that fails because of the permissions within the Github Actions container. So I decided to use a lightweight container which I've been using in development as well.
Now we are independent of the Github images and we could even run the tests against multiple Ubuntu versions in parallel.
The LXC setup took a little bit longer but not much: