diff --git a/.github/actionlint.yaml b/.github/actionlint.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cc790c6bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/actionlint.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+paths:
+  .github/workflows/ci.yml:
+    ignore:
+      # actionlint v1.7.12 does not support GitHub Actions parallel steps yet.
+      - 'step must run script with "run" section or run action with "uses" section'
+      - 'property "wsl-image" is not defined in object type \{\}'
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index c113ce957..e5e10a2bf 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -57,29 +57,30 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
         with:
           persist-credentials: false
-      - name: Prepare Docker Compose environment
-        run: |
-          mise_version=$(sed -n 's/^min_version = "\(.*\)"$/\1/p' mise.toml)
-          if [[ -z ${mise_version} ]]; then
-            echo "Failed to read mise min_version." >&2
-            exit 1
-          fi
-          echo "MISE_VERSION=${mise_version}" >> "${GITHUB_ENV}"
-      - name: Resolve Ubuntu WSL image version
-        id: wsl-image
-        run: |
-          etag=$(
-            curl --fail-with-body --silent --head --location \
-              --write-out '%header{etag}' \
-              --output /dev/null \
-              "${WSL_IMAGE_URL}"
-          )
-          etag="${etag//\"/}"
-          if [[ -z ${etag} ]]; then
-            echo "Failed to read WSL image ETag." >&2
-            exit 1
-          fi
-          echo "etag=${etag}" >> "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
+      - parallel:
+          - name: Prepare Docker Compose environment
+            run: |
+              mise_version=$(sed -n 's/^min_version = "\(.*\)"$/\1/p' mise.toml)
+              if [[ -z ${mise_version} ]]; then
+                echo "Failed to read mise min_version." >&2
+                exit 1
+              fi
+              echo "MISE_VERSION=${mise_version}" >> "${GITHUB_ENV}"
+          - name: Resolve Ubuntu WSL image version
+            id: wsl-image
+            run: |
+              etag=$(
+                curl --fail-with-body --silent --head --location \
+                  --write-out '%header{etag}' \
+                  --output /dev/null \
+                  "${WSL_IMAGE_URL}"
+              )
+              etag="${etag//\"/}"
+              if [[ -z ${etag} ]]; then
+                echo "Failed to read WSL image ETag." >&2
+                exit 1
+              fi
+              echo "etag=${etag}" >> "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
       - name: Cache Ubuntu WSL image
         id: wsl-cache
         uses: actions/cache@55cc8345863c7cc4c66a329aec7e433d2d1c52a9 # v6.1.0