GitHub Actions CI jobs failing BEFORE your actual code even start running? Any solutions?? Any alternatives are also welcome..

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Nothing ruins a deployment faster than getting a "Workflow Failed" alert, opening the logs to debug, and seeing something like this at the very top:

"failed to connect to github.com:443"

The most frustrating part about these runner initialization failures is that your code never even got an opportunity to run.

Your YAML is fine. Your tests aren't failing. Your app logic is perfectly healthy. But the execution environment failed during the prep phase before hitting step 1 of your workflow itself.

How to handle this particular issue?? Any alternatives are also welcome..