Run Gitlab pipelines 2x faster and 5x cheaper without changes in .gitlab-ci.yml

Re:Run Gitlab pipelines 2x faster and 5x cheaper without cha... by brianwawok on Monday November 06, 2023 @08:29PM (#38171936)

Runners are for sure slow and expensive.

My solution: buy a $5k server with 128 cores and lots of memory. Sits in my basement. Runs our CI/CD for the cost of electricity. Think it got our full test suite down from 20 minutes on circle to 5 minutes.

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Re:Run Gitlab pipelines 2x faster and 5x cheaper without cha... by rightonbrother on Monday November 06, 2023 @09:38PM (#38172506)

This is the way.

Can't get large company's to do it but it makes so much more financial sense to lower the cost of ci so you can use as much of it as you want.

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Re:Run Gitlab pipelines 2x faster and 5x cheaper without cha... by NikPuashkin on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @05:39AM (#38175312)

Can't disagree here. If you have time and a member in your team who can cook it, own hardware is worth a shot. But should get prepared for a lot of things to cook. You still have to maximize your server utilization together with security: running containers on a single host with 128 cores works seamless only if your workloads are trusted and the amount of processes is dozens, not hundreds or thousands.

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