Show HN: Use GitHub Actions to serve a serverless service
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Re: Show HN: Use GitHub Actions to serve a serverless service
#2This goes against githubs TOS and is not the first project to do so.
Re: Show HN: Use GitHub Actions to serve a serverless service
#3This goes against githubs TOS and is not the first project to do so.
was the other project also using github actions?
Re: Show HN: Use GitHub Actions to serve a serverless service
#4This goes against githubs TOS and is not the first project to do so.
was the other project also using github actions?
Yes, got killed pretty quickly.
Take a look:
https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-additio...
Specifically: "any activity that places a burden on our servers, where that burden is disproportionate to the benefits provided to users (for example, don't use Actions as a content delivery network or as part of a serverless application, but a low benefit Action could be ok if it’s also low burden); or"
Re: Show HN: Use GitHub Actions to serve a serverless service
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
was the other project also using github actions?
Yes, got killed pretty quickly. Take a look: https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-additio... Specifically: "any activity that places a burden on our servers, where that burden is disproportionate to the benefits provided to users (for example, don't use Actions as a content delivery network or as part of a serverless application, but a low benefit Action could be ok if it’s also low burden); or"
What's the other one?
Re: Show HN: Use GitHub Actions to serve a serverless service
#6Hate to be sour grapes here, but this is nothing new. Every project that uses actions to publish a package, create a release commit and/or tag, and commit that to the repo is doing pretty much the same thing.
Re: Show HN: Use GitHub Actions to serve a serverless service
#7Unfortunately projects like will probably force GH to remove Actions for free private repos and limit it for public repos in some way, like enabling it only for approved projects. Please stop abusing this feature.
Re: Show HN: Use GitHub Actions to serve a serverless service
#8Is this anything besides a static website that could be hosted on S3 just as well? Seems like you're just using Actions to compile the static assets, which is probably not as good as doing it locally.
Re: Show HN: Use GitHub Actions to serve a serverless service
#9Is this anything besides a static website that could be hosted on S3 just as well? Seems like you're just using Actions to compile the static assets, which is probably not as good as doing it locally.
One distinction is serving the static content on the internet, which results in a consumable API.
This is not the same as running locally.
Re: Show HN: Use GitHub Actions to serve a serverless service
#10Please do not abuse Microsoft/GitHub's goodwill of giving free resources. This will just get them taken away from everyone.