GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories

Post by pas » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 5:57 PM UTC

rmetzler wrote: post #50

sytse wrote: post #2

This is great news for developers. The trend has been to combine version control and CI for years now. For a timeline see https://about.gitlab.com/2019/08/08/built-in-ci-cd-version-c... This is bad news for the CI providers that depend on GitHub, in particular CircleCI. Luckily for them (or maybe they saw this coming) they recently raised a series D https://circleci.com/blog/we-raised-a-56m-series-d-what-s-ne... and…

I think a good strategy for Microsoft would be to reuse as much as possible CI/CD code from github in Azure devops. Azure devops probably doesn’t need to be as flexible as long as it is robust and just works. Github will probably be the place where experiments can happen.

Post by lkschubert8 » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 5:58 PM UTC

NathanKP wrote: post #13

marceloabsousa wrote: post #8

Is it official now that Github is becoming Gitlab? Does anyone know how they are going to bill for the compute used in the CI?

The features page has a pricing table: https://github.com/features/actions It is totally free for public repos. For private repos: - Free accounts get 2000 free minutes - Pro accounts get 3000 free minutes - Team accounts get 10k free minutes - Enterprise accounts get 50k free minutes Additional runner minutes are: - Linux: $0.008 per min - Windows: $0.016 per min - macOS: $0.08 per min (yeah that's not a typo, it is…

Post by zenlikethat » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 5:59 PM UTC

penagwin wrote: post #62

zenlikethat wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All roads lead to Azure. Github's user base is far bigger than Azure's user base, and Microsoft wants to eventually get as many people as possible buying IaaS (or equivalents). The next logical step after Github Actions for CI/CD is to offer Github as a place to run the production code too. You would be buying Azure with fewer steps. It's pretty arbitrary that we develop code in one place while then going off and usi…

If they added a button that was essentially just zeit now it would be revolutionary. Especially if they had a generous free tier. Imagine one click hosting for blogs, etc. Now THAT would certainly hook people in

Post by t3rabytes » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 6:02 PM UTC

theptip wrote: post #22

As a Gitlab user that's not strongly committed to the platform, this looks like a pretty interesting option. Anyone have thoughts on how this compares to e.g. Google Cloud Builder in terms of functionality? Being integrated into the GH backend seems like a big perk, rather than having to use webhooks for everything. Seems like you can do things like build your Docker containers ( https://developer.github.com/actions/…

Post by mirekrusin » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 6:05 PM UTC

myself-or-not wrote: post #39

theptip wrote: post #22

As a Gitlab user that's not strongly committed to the platform, this looks like a pretty interesting option. Anyone have thoughts on how this compares to e.g. Google Cloud Builder in terms of functionality? Being integrated into the GH backend seems like a big perk, rather than having to use webhooks for everything. Seems like you can do things like build your Docker containers ( https://developer.github.com/actions/…

GH Actions offers self-hosted agents too, that can be deployed in the VPC