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+name: CI
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - master
+  push:
+    branches:
+    - master
+    - release/*
+    - actions # for testing this build spec
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/setup-go@v1
+      with:
+        go-version: '1.13.3'
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: build container
+      run: docker build --file Dockerfile --tag chrishirsch:$GITHUB_RUN_ID .
+    - uses: engineerd/setup-kind@v0.3.0
+      with:
+          version: "v0.7.0"
+
+    - name: Testing
+      run: |
+        kubectl cluster-info
+        kubectl get pods -n kube-system
+        kubectl get nodes
+        echo "current-context:" $(kubectl config current-context)
+        echo "environment-kubeconfig:" ${KUBECONFIG}
+        kind load docker-image chrishirsch:$GITHUB_RUN_ID
+    - name: "running end to end test"
+      run: ./.ci/e2e.sh