diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
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+---
+name: Continuous Integration
+on: [push, pull_request]
+jobs:
+  build-and-test:
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2.0.0
+        
+      - name: Set up Python 3.6
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: 3.6
+
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+          export BITCOIN_VERSION=0.20.1
+          export ELEMENTS_VERSION=0.18.1.8
+          sudo useradd -ms /bin/bash tester
+          sudo apt-get update -qq
+
+          sudo apt-get -qq install --no-install-recommends --allow-unauthenticated -yy \
+          autoconf \
+          automake \
+          binfmt-support \
+          build-essential \
+          clang \
+          cppcheck \
+          docbook-xml \
+          eatmydata \
+          gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu \
+          gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf \
+          gcc-arm-none-eabi \
+          gettext \
+          git \
+          libc6-dev-arm64-cross \
+          libc6-dev-armhf-cross \
+          libgmp-dev \
+          libpq-dev \
+          libprotobuf-c-dev \
+          libsqlite3-dev \
+          libtool \
+          libxml2-utils \
+          locales \
+          net-tools \
+          postgresql \
+          python-pkg-resources \
+          python3 \
+          python3-dev \
+          python3-pip \
+          python3-setuptools \
+          qemu \
+          qemu-system-arm \
+          qemu-user-static \
+          shellcheck \
+          software-properties-common \
+          sudo \
+          tcl \
+          unzip \
+          valgrind \
+          wget \
+          xsltproc \
+          zlib1g-dev
+
+          echo "tester ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:ALL" | sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/tester
+          sudo chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/tester
+
+          cd /tmp/ && \
+          wget https://storage.googleapis.com/c-lightning-tests/bitcoin-$BITCOIN_VERSION-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.bz2 && \
+          wget -q https://storage.googleapis.com/c-lightning-tests/elements-$ELEMENTS_VERSION-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.bz2 && \
+          tar -xjf bitcoin-$BITCOIN_VERSION-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.bz2 && \
+          tar -xjf elements-$ELEMENTS_VERSION-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.bz2 && \
+          sudo mv bitcoin-$BITCOIN_VERSION/bin/* /usr/local/bin && \
+          sudo mv elements-$ELEMENTS_VERSION/bin/* /usr/local/bin && \
+          rm -rf \
+          bitcoin-$BITCOIN_VERSION-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz \
+          bitcoin-$BITCOIN_VERSION \
+          elements-$ELEMENTS_VERSION-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.bz2 \
+          elements-$ELEMENTS_VERSION
+
+      - name: Build
+        run: |
+          echo Running in $(pwd)
+          export ARCH=${ARCH:-64}
+          export BOLTDIR=lightning-rfc
+          export CC=${COMPILER:-gcc}
+          export COMPAT=${COMPAT:-1}
+          export TEST_CHECK_DBSTMTS=${TEST_CHECK_DBSTMTS:-0}
+          export DEVELOPER=${DEVELOPER:-1}
+          export EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURES=${EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURES:-0}
+          export PATH=$CWD/dependencies/bin:"$HOME"/.local/bin:"$PATH"
+          export PYTEST_OPTS="--maxfail=5 --reruns=2 --suppress-no-test-exit-code ${PYTEST_OPTS}"
+          export PYTEST_PAR=${PYTEST_PAR:-10}
+          export PYTEST_SENTRY_ALWAYS_REPORT=1
+          export SLOW_MACHINE=1
+          export TEST_CMD=${TEST_CMD:-"make -j $PYTEST_PAR pytest"}
+          export TEST_DB_PROVIDER=${DB:-"sqlite3"}
+          export TEST_NETWORK=${NETWORK:-"regtest"}
+          export TIMEOUT=900
+          export VALGRIND=${VALGRIND:-0}
+
+          env
+
+          pip3 install --user -U \
+          -r requirements.txt \
+          -r contrib/pyln-client/requirements.txt \
+          -r contrib/pyln-proto/requirements.txt \
+          -r contrib/pyln-testing/requirements.txt
+
+          # Install utilities that aren't dependencies, but make running
+          # tests easier/feasible on CI
+          pip3 install --user \
+          blinker \
+          pytest-sentry \
+          pytest-rerunfailures==9.1.1 \
+          pytest-test-groups==1.0.3 \
+          pytest-custom-exit-code==0.3.0
+
+          git clone https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc.git ../lightning-rfc
+
+          git submodule init
+          git submodule update
+          (cd external/libwally-core/src/; git submodule init; git submodule update)
+
+          ./configure CC="$CC"
+          cat config.vars
+
+          if [ "$TARGET_HOST" == "arm-linux-gnueabihf" ] || [ "$TARGET_HOST" == "aarch64-linux-gnu" ]
+          then
+          export QEMU_LD_PREFIX=/usr/"$TARGET_HOST"/
+          export MAKE_HOST="$TARGET_HOST"
+          export BUILD=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
+          export AR="$TARGET_HOST"-ar
+          export AS="$TARGET_HOST"-as
+          export CC="$TARGET_HOST"-gcc
+          export CXX="$TARGET_HOST"-g++
+          export LD="$TARGET_HOST"-ld
+          export STRIP="$TARGET_HOST"-strip
+          export CONFIGURATION_WRAPPER=qemu-"${TARGET_HOST%%-*}"-static
+
+          wget -q https://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz \
+          && tar xf zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz \
+          && cd zlib-1.2.11 \
+          && ./configure --prefix="$QEMU_LD_PREFIX" \
+          && make \
+          && sudo make install
+          cd .. && rm zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz && rm -rf zlib-1.2.11
+
+          wget -q https://www.sqlite.org/2018/sqlite-src-3260000.zip \
+          && unzip -q sqlite-src-3260000.zip \
+          && cd sqlite-src-3260000 \
+          && automake --add-missing --force-missing --copy || true \
+          && ./configure --disable-tcl --enable-static --disable-readline --disable-threadsafe --disable-load-extension --host="$TARGET_HOST" --prefix="$QEMU_LD_PREFIX" \
+          && make \
+          && sudo make install
+          cd .. && rm sqlite-src-3260000.zip && rm -rf sqlite-src-3260000
+
+          wget -q https://gmplib.org/download/gmp/gmp-6.1.2.tar.xz \
+          && tar xf gmp-6.1.2.tar.xz \
+          && cd gmp-6.1.2 \
+          && ./configure --disable-assembly --prefix="$QEMU_LD_PREFIX" --host="$TARGET_HOST" \
+          && make \
+          && sudo make install
+          cd .. && rm gmp-6.1.2.tar.xz && rm -rf gmp-6.1.2
+
+          ./configure CC="$TARGET_HOST-gcc" --enable-static
+
+          make -j32 CC="$TARGET_HOST-gcc" > /dev/null
+          else
+          eatmydata make -j32
+          eatmydata $TEST_CMD
+          fi
diff --git a/action.yml b/action.yml
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+---
+name: 'Lightning CI'
+description: 'A preconfigured container with all c-lightning dependencies'
+runs:
+  using: 'docker'
+  image: 'contrib/Dockerfile.tester'