crohr
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Comment · 4 months 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.
Comment · 5 months ago
Really nice, thanks!
Comment · 6 months ago
I’m the founder of runs-on.com, we should talk!
Comment · 7 months ago
So cool, thanks for sharing. Do you think it might be easier to maintain than something like `act` over the long run?
Comment · 7 months 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)
Comment · 8 months 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 wrong. Buildjet just announced they were shutting down though, citing recent improvements to the GitHub Actions platform.
For the record I maintain the Runs-on [1] he's talking about, as a solo developer.
Comment · 8 months ago
For alternatives, I maintain a benchmark at https://runs-on.com/benchmarks/github-actions-cpu-performanc...
Comment · 9 months ago
Not fully OSS, but you can have a look at https://github.com/runs-on/runs-on
Comment · 10 months 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.
Comment · 10 months 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.
Currently launching https://runs-on.com, 10x cheaper GitHub Action runner, on premise.
More details at https://cyrilrohr.com