GitHub was down again

Re:GitHub was down again by silasdavis on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:52AM (#23847009)

GitHub actions downtime is becoming painful for us. Having been lured on there with 10,000 included minutes which they shortly thereafter dropped to 3,000 I feel aggrieved paying for overages incurred from actions regularly shitting the bed.

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Re:GitHub was down again by carstenhag on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @12:42PM (#23847773)

Also having outages at Azure DevOps Pipelines every other month or so it seems. And that's paying - for hours there's no mention on the status page and we are stuck there, not being able to merge PRs or release our app in the standard way.

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Re:GitHub was down again by hinkley on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @01:56PM (#23848993)

Paying Saucelabs customer here.

It's gotten more reliable over time (especially selenium events being dropped on the floor causing tests to stall and fail), but I used to have to babysit it quite a bit and there were quite a number of times where IE instances just would not spool up (with a multiple minute timeout set). Sometimes it was a one-shot thing, other times it went on for hours.

During these incidents the average allocation times listed on their status page would double for Windows VMs (I don't recall the exact numbers but they were on the order of 10 seconds vs 5) but nothing would be red, and most of the time nothing ever did go red.

And that's what you get for using averages for things and divide infinity by n improperly.

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Re:GitHub was down again by atraac on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @01:18PM (#23848311)

This is weird because we haven't encountered any real issues with agents in Azure DevOps pipelines. I think we maybe had a single downtime in last 6 months. They recently removed .NET Core 2.2 SDK without any notice and broke our builds but that's another thing.

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Re:GitHub was down again by carstenhag on Monday July 20, 2020 @05:03AM (#23896059)

Maybe it has something to do with us using the macOS hosts/agents? For deprecating things, I know that they sometimes do brownouts, see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/removing-older-images-...

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Re:GitHub was down again by michaelwda on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @01:41PM (#23848736)

I couldn't find ANYTHING about the 2.2 removal. Just one day our unit test projects stopped working. I understand that 2.1 is LTS, but still.

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Re:GitHub was down again by penagwin on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @01:35PM (#23848626)

Github actions has been a huge let down for me. Between uptime issues and the lack of support for so many basic CI features is killing it for me (and has been for a year).

The only reason we're using it is because it's free..

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Re:GitHub was down again by kwhat4 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @02:05PM (#23849143)

Honestly I've had the opposite experience. With so many community actions available, I've had little trouble finding anything I could dream up. Sure, some of the actions features are a little immature but they are improving with time. The uptime issues are annoying and I feel like the lack of transparency is not helping that situation, but as far as CI solutions go, I feel like my move to actions has been a great way to get up and running with far less effort than other offerings like Code Pipeline.

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