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

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

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Post by oakesm9 »

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…

> - macOS: $0.08 per min (yeah that's not a typo, it is copied straight from the page, macOS is mad expensive)

Roughly inline with what other CI providers charge for MacOS per minute. Circle CI cheapest plan is 0.0498 per minute, but you need to pay USD$249 per month to get up to 5000 minutes. To make it that cheap you need to use all of your minutes up.

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

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Post by Guillaume86 »

twalla wrote: post #64
pas wrote: post #61

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Azure Pipelines is currently considered the best CI/CD solution. (For example see GitLab issues about how users would like GitLab to improve theirs.)

[citation needed]

I'm in the process of replacing TeamCity with Azure Pipelines (not my choice). It's ok but I also doubt it's best in class, TeamCity is far better IMO (more flexible, more informations/actions on one screen, less clicks, better logs display, better tests results display, live tests results, etc). I wish they had an hosted offer, and yaml configuration.

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

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Post by qubyte »

judge2020 wrote: post #169
qubyte wrote: post #168

I've been on the beta for a while, and while it was understandably limited, I really enjoy it and have done a lot with it. I'm excited about the announcement because it appears that a lot more can be done now. However, it's not clear what happens to existing actions and workflows. Do they just stop working? Can actions still be made from a dockerfile and entrypoint script?

See - https://twitter.com/gimenete/status/1159521518403145728?s=20 https://help.github.com/en/articles/migrating-github-actions... Already used the "migrate-actions" binary on a few projects, and while I don't have the new version enabled (you'll get a notification when the repo is available for an upgrade), this is better in terms of simplicity since you don't have to manage action references or the "resolves" field…

Thanks for the links! I'll miss the old workflow and its syntax (allowing for parallelism), but I'm keeping an open mind.

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

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Post by nickmerwin »

hartator wrote: post #92

That’s pretty huge. I wonder if it’s possible to have the results committed to the repository. To be able to display a badge in the readme. Like 87% test passing.

Hi, Coveralls CTO here, the pass/fail status of any commit is shown as a green check / red x in the commit list and at the top of the repo details page as the "most recent commit".

As for a % badge, you can use our new Coveralls GitHub Action to post your coverage data to https://coveralls.io, then add the badge to your readme:

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/coveralls-github-acti...

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

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Post by GordonS »

kkapelon wrote: post #130
pas wrote: post #61

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Azure Pipelines is currently considered the best CI/CD solution. (For example see GitLab issues about how users would like GitLab to improve theirs.)

Last time I checked Azure Pipelines still doesn't have build caching https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/idea/365... F.S. I work for Codefresh a CI/CD solution

You can bodge your own solution if you use your own build agent.

For hosted build agents, this is about to change, as a new caching task is in preview. I've tried it, and it's unstable at the moment, so I'd recommend just waiting until it's out of preview.

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

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Post by westurner »

structural wrote: post #141
clinta wrote: post #91

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I'm an operations guy, but I think I have a different perspective. The developers I work with don't have to think about CI/CD, but the configuration still lives in the repo, I'm just a contributer to that repo like they are. Having CI configuration separate from the code sounds like a nightmare when a code change requires CI configurations to be updated. A new version of code requires a new dependency for instance, t…

Having CI configuration inside the codebase also sounds like a nightmare when changes to the CI or deployment environment require configuration changes or when multiple CI/deployment environments exist. For example as a use case: Software has dozens of tagged releases; organization moves from deploying on AWS to deploying in a Kubernetes cluster (requiring at least one change to the deployment configuration). Now, to…

You can create a separate repo with your own CI config that pulls in the code you want to test; and thus ignore the code's CI config file. When something breaks, you'd then need to determine in which repo something changed: in the CI config repo, or the code repo. And then, you have CI events attached to PRs in the CI config repository.

IMHO it makes sense to have CI config version controlled in the same repo as the code. Unless there's a good tool for bisecting across multiple repos and subrepos?

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

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Post by radicalriddler »

glennpratt wrote: post #163
wolco wrote: post #145

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Now that you mention it maps hasn't really improved since streetview. Search is worse. Gmail hasn't really changed much. I guess after it's launched new features are too difficult to add for google.

What? All of these products probably have a miles long changelog. I mean, I can assume you don't care for the change, but it's there. Streetview was launched in 2007.

Did they not see Google Maps change to a globe late last year? Revolutionary! Take that Flat Earthers!

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

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Post by manigandham »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #153
manigandham wrote: post #140

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Microsoft is an even better example of a massive company continually competing. Their dev/tech products and tools have gotten magnitudes better in recent years.

Huh? MS is the perfect example of how monopolies cause things to stagnate. It was only when new technology paradigms allowed for the growth of companies like Google and Amazon (wrt AWS) did MS turn around. IE stagnated for years after MS killed Netscape. No company has really ever challenged Windows on desktop PCs. It was only when new platforms like the Internet and mobile computing came along that provided space fo…

Sure, but that's the example of monopolies facing competition when they turn bad. Sometimes that takes a new platform shift, other times its just a better product, but either way if there's new value then the monopoly breaks down.

I think if anything, the problem today is companies that could be challengers just end up selling to the very incumbent they're competing against.

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

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Post by snitko »

davnicwil wrote: post #162
snitko wrote: post #83

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It's a horrible trend. CI should not be tied to version control. I mean we all have to deal with it now, but I'd much rather have my CI agnostic and not have config files for it checked into the repo. I've browsed through the article you linked to, one of the subtitles was "Realizing the future of DevOps is a single application". Also a horrible idea: I think it locks developers into a certain workflow which is hard…

I 100% agree and am building https://boxci.dev to solve this problem for myself and I hope others too. It's a CI service that lets you run your builds however you want, on any machine you want (cloud vm; in house server; your laptop) using an open source cli that just wraps any shell script/command and streams the logs to a service to give you all the useful stuff like build history, team account management, etc. In…

Looking forward to it, very interested. However, I'm going to be honest with you - it'd be a hard decision to rely on a service rather than an open-source software. Like, you guys can go bust any time and while the runner is indeed open-source, as I imagine, the management console for it won't be. And I understand that's what people are paying for, but, perhaps, consider licencing it, rather than running from your own server and charging for the service.

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

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Post by ithkuil »

0xffff2 wrote: post #144
rehemiau wrote: post #87

It always supported CI/CD, they just changed their marketing strategy from "No it's not just CI/CD" to "Yes we have CI/CD now"

What have they “always” supported exactly? I’ve used GitHub for a long time, but I use it entirely as a git server and sometimes an issue tracker. That said, I’m pretty sure they didn’t support anything that even remotely resembles CI/CD back when I started using it.

I was using GitHub actions to do build, test and push to production for a while now, with the older syntax (the one without yaml). I'm not sure exactly what changed now, and the messaging is indeed confusing
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