GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas

Re:GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas by elpakal on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @04:11PM (#28462408)

Build engineer at a large Fortune 500 shop here - the largest impediment to us even enabling GitHub Actions is that you either disable them entirely for your org or allow repo admins to enable them _per repo_. We have several hundred repos in one org alone and we cannot simply enable them for everyone with admin access (for us if you create a repo, you get admin access).

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Re:GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas by shadycuz on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @04:35PM (#28462695)

You can run actions on your existing Jenkins infra https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/jenkins-std-lib

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Re:GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas by jeremyepling on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:05PM (#28465030)

You can go to your organization settings / Actions and choose the specific repos that can use Actions. Repo admins can’t override that.

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Re:GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas by elpakal on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:11PM (#28465435)

TIL

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Re:GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas by adwww on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @04:14PM (#28462441)

> cannot simply enable them for everyone with admin access

why not? is that a cost issue, perceived security, administration overhead?

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Re:GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas by athorax on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @04:20PM (#28462513)

Not OP, but in our case allowing essentially the entire company to start to use GHA would result in a huge load increase on our GHE deployment. Even with self-hosted runners per org, there is a lot of overhead that is ran on the github servers themselves. We are working towards rolling it out, but there are definitely some scalability issues.

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Re:GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas by pojzon on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @04:44PM (#28462802)

We are running dedicated agents per repo, anytime someone creates a repo an agent pool is created for him.

Everything is running on AKS. We dont even pay for it THAT much, because container-agents are spinned up when needed. (Also few hundred repos)

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Re:GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas by hardwaresofton on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:00PM (#28464990)

If off-premise is an option for you I’d like to suggest a service I run called SurplusCI (surplusci.com). It’s cheaper than self hosting most of the time and is SHOULD be roughly zero toil for you.

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Re:GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas by jffry on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:06PM (#28465039)

I'm guessing since @athorax mentioned "our GHE deployment" that they're running GHE on-prem instead of using hosted GHE.

I'd be surprised if they were amenable to off-prem Actions runner hosting if they chose to run github on-prem

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Re:GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas by hardwaresofton on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:33PM (#28465191)

Ah you're absolutely right -- I mistook the "overhead" as running some actions on regular GHA but they were talking about overhead on the on-prem runners that already exist.

Yeah it's pretty unlikely that they're running GHE for any other reason than needing to keep everything on prem.

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Re:GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas by elpakal on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @04:42PM (#28462788)

perceived security unfortunately. not my call

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