Re:Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners. Reduces ...
by pinkgolem on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @01:33PM
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Iops on GitHub runners is also terrible slow, you easily get a 5x to 10x improvement
We did the same, and set up GitHub actions runners on hetzner
Halfed the integration test time and made them more reliable.
Re:Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners. Reduces ...
by password4321 on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @01:45PM
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I've heard CI/CD in general and GitHub Actions specifically is where old cloud hardware goes until it dies.
Re:Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners. Reduces ...
by crohr on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @03:48AM
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Just a catch with Hetzner vs AWS: pricing at AWS is per-second while Hetzner is per-hour, which is (very) inconvenient if you're launching ephemeral runners.
Re:Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners. Reduces ...
by pinkgolem on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @11:12AM
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while thats true.. i am using TestFlows-GitHub-Hetzner-Runners, which recycles runner for the 1 hour lifetime, works like a charm so far
also main reason for switching was performance, not cost for us.
So, while this is the first time I've heard of ubicloud, I use gha extensively.
Abd frankly, I think it's just because Github has a crazy markup on their actions compute over the raw compute. Taking a quick look, it appears that their base rate is like $0.008 per-minute!! That's a rate that wouldn't look crazy out of line with EC2's hourly rate.
I've worked on projects where we saved significant money, and improved build times just by launching a single EC2 instance and connecting it to Actions.