@estevez sorry, didn't mean for my question to come across as "justify your choices!" Just looking to learn.  I'm new to CI/CD producing a container, or bootable containers, so its fascinating to read your stuff.

Thanks as well for pointing me to your workflow directory. I was immediately struck by how similar Gitea's workflow is to GH. As someone who has recently looked into translating GitHub Actions workflows into GitLab CI, I love that Gitea looks virtually the same as GitHub's. Might check it out in my Forgejo instance.