Add github action

.github/workflows/test-examples.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+name: Test Examples
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  # TODO: consider cronjob to run this at night
+  push:  # THIS SHOULD BE REMOVED BEFORE MERGE
+    branches:
+      - 20241212_testing-examples
+
+concurrency:
+  # Cancel any running workflow for the same branch when new commits are pushed.
+  # We group both by ref_name (available when CI is triggered by a push to a branch/tag)
+  # and head_ref (available when CI is triggered by a PR).
+  group: "${{ github.ref_name }}-${{ github.head_ref }}"
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Install Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: 1.22.10
+      - name: Run tests
+        run: make examples/test

Makefile

@@ -75,6 +75,14 @@ else
 	$(BIN)/gotestsum -- $(GO_TEST_FLAGS) -skip $(EBPF_TESTS) ./... ./ebpf/...
 endif
 
+# Run test on examples
+# This can also be used to run it on a subset of tests
+# $ make examples/test RUN=TestDockerComposeBuildRun/tracing/java
+.PHONY: examples/test
+examples/test: RUN := .*
+examples/test: $(BIN)/gotestsum
+	$(BIN)/gotestsum --format testname -- --count 1 --timeout 1h --tags examples -run $(RUN) ./examples
+
 .PHONY: build
 build: frontend/build go/bin ## Do a production build (requiring the frontend build to be present)