FIX: assimilating GitHub CI steps to those of normal cookiecutter

Author: Javier Garcia Ordonez

.github/workflows/github-ci.yml

@@ -14,38 +14,21 @@ jobs:
         python: ["3.10"]
         os: ["ubuntu-24.04"]
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Set up Docker Buildx
         id: buildx
-        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v2
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v3
         with:
-          version: v0.13.1
+          version: ${{ matrix.docker_buildx }}
           driver: docker-container
-      - name: create new dir
-        run: sudo mkdir -p /mnt/docker
-      - name: Maximize build space
-        uses: easimon/maximize-build-space@master
-        with:
-          root-reserve-mb: 4096
-          remove-dotnet: 'true'
-          remove-android: 'true'
-          remove-haskell: 'true'
-          build-mount-path: '/mnt/docker'
-      - name: change docker default root path
-        run: |
-          docker info | grep "Docker Root"
-          sudo service docker stop
-          sudo sed -i "s|}|,'data-root': '/mnt/docker'}|" /etc/docker/daemon.json
-          sudo sed -i "s/'/\"/g" /etc/docker/daemon.json
-          sudo cat /etc/docker/daemon.json
-          sudo service docker start
-          docker info | grep "Docker Root" 
       - name: setup python environment
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
           cache: "pip"
           cache-dependency-path: "**/requirements*.txt"
+      - name: show versions
+        run: ./ci/helpers/show_system_versions.bash
       - name: set dev environs
         run: make devenv
       - name: test cookiecutter build images