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Moving Away from Travis CI
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#12Any recommendations on good open source CI / CDs? Right now I just use github actions, but am interested in other self hosted options.
I use self-hosted Gitlab CI runner with docker. It never misses a beat.
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#13I also moved from Travis CI to GitHub Actions and was pleased with the results. It wasn't mentioned in the article, but GitHub Actions is free for both public and private repos. To my knowledge, Travis CI was never free for private repos.
There are limits on GHA to the number of minutes for private repos when not using self-hosted runners (currently 2_000 minutes per month allocated per org/user when using "Github Free")
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#14I'm surprised people are still using Travis CI. The writing was on the wall the day of the acquisition. I moved all of my builds immediately.
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#15I wrote a blog post about this a couple weeks ago [1], and I think as a result of writing it in the midst of the week-long annoyance that I had at having to quickly move my active projects over to GH Actions, I may have been a bit too negative in my overall tone.
I do like that this post expresses the gratitude for many years of free OSS CI that Travis did provide, and I especially want to echo that and thank the original founders and engineers who helped grow Travis CI and the entire idea of 'every project gets CI' that is now prevalent (in most professional realms), just like the previous generation embraced the idea of 'every project is in a VCS'.
It's too bad what's happened, I think, but Travis does have a great legacy.
[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/travis-cis-new-pricin...
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#16Any recommendations on good open source CI / CDs? Right now I just use github actions, but am interested in other self hosted options.
I have had good experiences with Concourse CI, especially for trunk-based development
How do you host concourse? Did you adopt their entire stack? Last time I looked at it, it seemed cool but I had no interest in learning BOSH.
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#17Any recommendations on good open source CI / CDs? Right now I just use github actions, but am interested in other self hosted options.
Definitely look at Jenkins. You can do pretty much whatever you want with it (not always a good thing though of course, use responsibly)
Chiming in to say: Avoid Jenkins like the plague. Jenkins is a bottomless pit of vulnerabilities and obscure bugs and outdated documentation that will waste weeks of your life.
(Caveat: If you plan to do devops at a Big Corp, then you might as well get good at Jenkins because they already use it.)
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#18Gitlab is a pioneer here. The did start with the 2000 minutes free of shared runners, for private and public repos. I really think we should all thank them for pushing ahead on innovation.
Gitlab invented this, github copied. Same as Snapchat invented, Instagram copied them.
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#19Any recommendations on good open source CI / CDs? Right now I just use github actions, but am interested in other self hosted options.
I use self-hosted Gitlab CI runner with docker. It never misses a beat.
Also using self-hosted Gitlab CI runner w/ some basic shell scripts.
It is a pleasure to work with.
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#20Gitlab is a pioneer here. The did start with the 2000 minutes free of shared runners, for private and public repos. I really think we should all thank them for pushing ahead on innovation. Gitlab invented this, github copied. Same as Snapchat invented, Instagram copied them.
I don't know about the timeline between when Gitlab CI started vs Travis, and gitlab certainly made the innovation of integrating it into the code host, but certainly Travis and Circle CI were popular before Gitlab was.