For people using GitHub Actions how often do these types of incidents impact your CI/CD?
Just about a monthly occurrence now. Harks back to the days of Travis it's frequent downtime.
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#62What's the reason these Git services have so many issues all the time?
Just like every company, they sometimes have things break, push out code that doesn't behave as expected, hit limits on various services they weren't aware of, etc.
The complexity of technical systems is massive especially when they are constantly changing. It's not helped that these companies have high availability requirements and need to be online 100% of the time even when making updates.
Makes me want to do embedded programming.
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#63For people using GitHub Actions how often do these types of incidents impact your CI/CD?
All the time. It’s not even that reliable when it’s up. Total embarrassment for us when we have to explain to management. If I started again I’d probably use something standalone, light weight and 100% self hosted ie GoCD. I’d change the operating model to keep GitHub as a collaboration place but not have any dependencies on it for pipeline. We have other issues as well like the GitHub flow mod being inadequate for m…
> GoCD
Don't. Just don't.
I'm assuming that the fundamental flaws* of GoCD haven't been fixed, based on the knowledge that in 2015 they (ThoughtWorks) still hadn't addressed them, and I think 5-6 years isn't long enough for them to be addressed.
*Pipelines, as modeled in GoCD, were so inflexible that any kind of flow resulted in having many, many, pipelines configured. To the point that the number pipelines you operate and maintain is actually the multiple of any fork in logic you need.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
All the time. It’s not even that reliable when it’s up. Total embarrassment for us when we have to explain to management. If I started again I’d probably use something standalone, light weight and 100% self hosted ie GoCD. I’d change the operating model to keep GitHub as a collaboration place but not have any dependencies on it for pipeline. We have other issues as well like the GitHub flow mod being inadequate for m…
> GoCD Don't. Just don't. I'm assuming that the fundamental flaws* of GoCD haven't been fixed, based on the knowledge that in 2015 they (ThoughtWorks) still hadn't addressed them, and I think 5-6 years isn't long enough for them to be addressed. *Pipelines, as modeled in GoCD, were so inflexible that any kind of flow resulted in having many, many, pipelines configured. To the point that the number pipelines you opera…
Thanks for the heads up. I will avoid that then!
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't look like it, unless the status-page update is also affected :) https://status.azure.com/en-us/status
It seems that status pages never work properly in those kind of situations. The only reliable source of information seems to be twitter and HN
What if Twitter has an outage...
Reminds me of the time when Twitter had an outage, because an FB outage made people go on Twitter to ask whether FB is down
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#66Re: GitHub was having issues
#67What's the reason these Git services have so many issues all the time?
GitHub were pretty open about having issues with Bitcoin mining abusing the free compute available via Actions. I think it's an ongoing battle and one which is having a wider platform impact
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#68Here we go again [0] and again [1] and again [2] and again [3]. Time to reset the counter once again. Now everything there is degraded performance. Oh dear. Consider a self-hosted alternative or have one as a backup like I have said before. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27192869 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27172443 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26666843 [3] https://news.ycombinator.…
Is there anything at in the same league as https://reviewable.io for code reviews on self-hosted Git?
Theres gerrit and reviewboard, both of which I would consider quite nice.
I dont know reviewable so it might have more sauce than the recommendations
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
All the time. It’s not even that reliable when it’s up. Total embarrassment for us when we have to explain to management. If I started again I’d probably use something standalone, light weight and 100% self hosted ie GoCD. I’d change the operating model to keep GitHub as a collaboration place but not have any dependencies on it for pipeline. We have other issues as well like the GitHub flow mod being inadequate for m…
From what I heard it was fine until Microsoft bought it and decided to bring over .net code (and people) from azure devops to replace a bunch of the pre-existing github actions stuff for some reason.
You're saying that .NET is not capable or bad when it comes to handling such a tools like building systems?
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#70Things like this make me want to have more free time to start my own paid CI service. I can likely start from a few languages I know and take it from there. I wonder how hard it is to write your own CI/CD though? Anybody has thoughts on this?
for some people its very easy and for some its impossible.