Fixing 20-Minute CI Timeouts: Run Browser Tests in the Playwright Image Across 4 Shards
SeanOliver · x · 2026-11-03
A Sudoclue developer shares a CI fix: browser tests kept getting cancelled at the 20-minute mark. The solution was running tests in the Playwright Docker image across 4 shards — the image ships with browsers, eliminating apt installs and browser downloads entirely.
Key takeaway: pre-baked Playwright images plus shard parallelism is the quickest way to speed up browser E2E CI.
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