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by crohr 3mo ago
Skip the middleman, just use AWS with runs-on.com (I'm the developer). Better instance choice, much cheaper, and you can setup an AWS budget alert.
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The GitHub Actions Language: Usage, Evolution, and Workflow Reliability(arxiv.org)
5 points by crohr 4mo ago|0 comments
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by crohr 4mo ago
Really nice, thanks!
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by crohr 5mo ago
I’m the founder of runs-on.com, we should talk!
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How building a Terraform module made me fall in love with CloudFormation(runs-on.com)
2 points by crohr 6mo ago|0 comments
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by crohr 6mo ago
So cool, thanks for sharing. Do you think it might be easier to maintain than something like `act` over the long run?
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by crohr 6mo ago
Love the observability you’ve built into it. But push a little bit further the scale and you’ll probably hit limits with the persistent self hosted runner approach, and end up with something like runs-on (runs-on.com)
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by crohr 7mo ago
> You know how I know GitHub’s runners are bad? Because there’s an entire cottage industry of companies whose sole product is “GitHub Actions, but the runners don’t suck.” Namespace, Blacksmith, Actuated, Runs-on, BuildJet He's not
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Buildjet Shuts Down(buildjet.com)
2 points by crohr 7mo ago|1 comments
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by crohr 7mo ago
For alternatives, I maintain a benchmark at https://runs-on.com/benchmarks/github-actions-cpu-performanc...
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Go Client for GitHub Actions Runner Scale Set APIs(github.com)
2 points by crohr 7mo ago|0 comments
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by crohr 8mo ago
Not fully OSS, but you can have a look at https://github.com/runs-on/runs-on
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by crohr 9mo ago
Thanks for posting this :) runs-on.com domain posts never get traction, wonder if this could be due to YCombinator investment in 5+ startups in that space... Oh well.
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by crohr 9mo ago
I am developing a self-hosted solution for this [1]. It’s true that it’s somewhat of a pain but JIT runners allow a lot of flexibility that we don’t find elsewhere. [1] https://runs-on.com
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by crohr 9mo ago
Probably long overdue, but per-minute price vs per-job is quite expensive. Wouldn’t like to be in the shoes of “only” 2x cheaper third parties. If they follow up with faster runners… interested to see if they ever come up with a good SDK fo
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by crohr 1y ago
But you can self-host github actions runners as well.
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by crohr 1y ago
It is not transparent though, so it doesn't work with all the other actions that use the cache toolkit, and you have to reference a specific action.
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by crohr 1y ago
Also note this open-source project that shows a way to implement this: https://github.com/falcondev-oss/github-actions-cache-server
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by crohr 1y ago
At this point this is considered a baseline feature of every good GitHub Actions third-party provider, but nice to see the write-up and solution they came up with! Note that GitHub Actions Cache v2 is actually very good in terms of download
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by crohr 1y ago
FYI you can also use a local S3 bucket as cache backend, and get 5x faster bandwidth and unlimited storage compared to a runner managed by GitHub: https://github.com/runs-on/cache
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by crohr 1y ago
What kind of CI runners do you use then? Do you self-host?
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by crohr 1y ago
I think if you want this submission to work, you really need to work on your getting started guide. Currently it just says: "Clone the repo". With Forge, how long does it take to start a runner once everything is setup?
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by crohr 1y ago
I guess TL;DR just use ephemeral runners when self hosting? There are lots of solutions for that. Also would be nice for GitHub to do something on the security front (allowlist / blocklists if IPs, hosted, etc or at least just reportin
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by crohr 1y ago
It doesn't provide the on-demand price, nor the instance specs. Also requires authentication. With this API I can also ask for pricing across a whole family type (e.g. `c7a`).
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Show HN: AWS EC2 Pricing API – live spot pricing across regions(ec2-pricing.runs-on.com)
2 points by crohr 1y ago|2 comments
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by crohr 1y ago
I'm maintaining a benchmark of various GitHub Actions providers regarding I/O speed [1]. Depot is not present because my account was blocked but would love to compare! The disk accelerator looks like a nice feature. [1]: https:&#
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by crohr 1y ago
For me the main issue with managed GitHub runners is their low performance compared to the cost. In the context of developing my own tool for managing self-hosted runners, I maintain a benchmark here [1] that compares GitHub vs third party
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by crohr 2y ago
"The world runs on Excel" - I think it's true and we should bring AI tooling inside the spreadsheet, not build yet another SaaS silo from where your data will never escape. Also opens a lot of doors for integrating with priva
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by crohr 2y ago
https://runs-on.com - Faster, 90% cheaper GitHub Actions runners!
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by crohr 2y ago
You might be better served with a provider that uses AWS graviton processors though. I maintain a benchmark at https://runs-on.com/benchmarks/github-actions-runners/ . I’ll add the new GitHub processor soon.

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