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As the person who runs one of the largest cloud CI/CD services around, I can tell you exactly how they're making money... Actions. GitHub would be making a VER
by llamaLord 2y ago
As the person who runs one of the largest cloud CI/CD services around, I can tell you exactly how they're making money... Actions.
GitHub would be making a VERY healthy margin on every minute of build time run on their platform, especially considering they don't have to pay a cloud platform for the compute like Gitlab or Bitbucket Pipelines do.
- Aeolun 2y agoRunning an amazon instance is around 10x cheaper than using an equivalent action runner. But for 99% of people it doesn’t matter because their usage never goes over the free allowance anyway.
- llamaLord 2y agoYou'd be surprised actually. Once you factor in network costs, running your own on AWS is only ~50% cheaper than paying for SaaS. Factor in the opportunity cost you pay by having to have a person manage a self-hosted CI/CD cluster rather than outsourcing it, and SaaS CI/CD is around 3x better value than self-hosted. Happy to share more detailed numbers if people are curious...
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