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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.

Really nice, thanks!

I’m the founder of runs-on.com, we should talk!

So cool, thanks for sharing. Do you think it might be easier to maintain than something like `act` over the long run?

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…

> 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.” Namespac…

For alternatives, I maintain a benchmark at https://runs-on.com/benchmarks/github-actions-cpu-performanc...

Not fully OSS, but you can have a look at https://github.com/runs-on/runs-on

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.

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. [1] https://run…

Probably long overdue, but per-minute price vs per-job is quite expensive. Wouldn’t like to be in the shoes of “only” 2x cheaper third parties. If they follow up with faster runner…

But you can self-host github actions runners as well.

It is not transparent though, so it doesn't work with all the other actions that use the cache toolkit, and you have to reference a specific action.

Also note this open-source project that shows a way to implement this: https://github.com/falcondev-oss/github-actions-cache-server

At this point this is considered a baseline feature of every good GitHub Actions third-party provider, but nice to see the write-up and solution they came up with! Note that GitHub…

FYI you can also use a local S3 bucket as cache backend, and get 5x faster bandwidth and unlimited storage compared to a runner managed by GitHub: https://github.com/runs-on/cache

What kind of CI runners do you use then? Do you self-host?

I think if you want this submission to work, you really need to work on your getting started guide. Currently it just says: "Clone the repo". With Forge, how long does it take to s…

I guess TL;DR just use ephemeral runners when self hosting? There are lots of solutions for that. Also would be nice for GitHub to do something on the security front (allowlist / b…

It doesn't provide the on-demand price, nor the instance specs. Also requires authentication. With this API I can also ask for pricing across a whole family type (e.g. `c7a`).

Up-to-date API to retrieve available instance types per region and platform, as well as up to date on-demand and spot pricing across every region and availability zones. Also inclu…