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

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Post by dstaheli » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 5:11 PM UTC

GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories
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Post by sytse » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 5:17 PM UTC

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 are already looking to add support for more platforms. It is hard to depend on a marketplace when it starts competing with you, from planning (Waffle.io), to dependency scanning (Gemnasium acquired by us), to CI (Travis CI layoff where especially sad).

It is interesting that a lot of the things GitHub is shipping is already part of Azure DevOps https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/example-... The overlap between Azure DevOps and GitHub seems to increase instead of to be reduced. I wonder what the integration story is and what will happen to Azure DevOps.

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Post by enlyth » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 5:18 PM UTC

I've been on the wait list for many months and still haven't gotten a chance to join the limited public beta.

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Post by the_duke » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 5:19 PM UTC

Meanwhile, I still haven't been invited to the beta...

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Post by dubcanada » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 5:19 PM UTC

I really want to try GitHub Actions but I signed up as soon as it was released and I am still waiting for an invite.

I am mostly just excited for it to be released so I can try it.

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Post by ZeroCool2u » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 5:20 PM UTC

Very excited to use this for deployment to AppEngine!

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Post by saagarjha » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 5:20 PM UTC

If you're curious about the platforms they have: https://help.github.com/en/articles/software-in-virtual-envi...

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Post by marceloabsousa » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 5:21 PM UTC

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?

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Post by abalaji » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 5:22 PM UTC

Really interesting. My project just migrated to Azure DevOps and I noticed that their configuration file looks really similar. My suspicion is that Azure DevOps is backing GitHub CI/CD.

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Post by scanr » Thu, Aug 08, 2019, 5:23 PM UTC

I wonder what they'll offer for Github Enterprise. Especially for organisations that are using it on prem and would prefer not to use Azure for builds.

Anyone know?