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Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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Post by hadlock »

codeflo wrote: post #194
mfcl wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They still run the whole orchestration. If you don't want to pay, you'd have to not use GitHub Actions at all, maybe by using their API to test new commits and PRs and mark them as failed or passed.

One problem is that GitHub Actions isn't good. It's not like you're happily paying for some top tier "orchestration". It's there and integrated, which does make it convenient, but any price on this piece of garbage makes switching/self-hosting something to seriously consider.

Github being a single pane of glass for developers with a single login is pretty powerful. Github hosting the runners is also pretty useful, ask anyone who has had to actually manage/scale them what their opinion is about Jenkins is. Being a "Jenkins Farmer" is a thankless job that means a lot of on-call work to fix the build system in the middle of the night at 2am on a Sunday. Paying a small monthly fee is absolutely worth it to rescue the morale of your infra/platform/devops/sre team.

Nothing kills morale faster than wrenching on the unreliable piece of infrastructure everyone hates. Every time I see an alert in slack github is having issues with actions (again) all I think is, "I'm glad that isn't me" and go about my day

Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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Post by [deleted] »

swatcoder wrote: post #51
tom1337 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep - Bitbucket made a similar move recently and I guess they are just following along. I'd love to get the justification of that fee tho… Edit: Confused GitLab and Bitbucket

> justification of that fee ZIRP ended, its remaining monopoly money has been burnt through, and the projected economy is looking bleak. We're now in the phase where everything that can be monetized is being monetized in every way that can be managed. Free tiers evaporate. Fees appear everywhere. Ads appear everywhere, even where it was implied they wouldn't. The lemons must be squeezed. And because everybody of rele…

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Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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Post by whimblepop »

fkorotkov wrote: post #185

IMO it's long time coming. Streaming logs and other supporting functionality is not free. We at Cirrus Runners provide runners as a service for a fixed monthly price with unlimited usage. We target large entrerprises that save $100K+ yearly by switching to us (10-25 times). In our calculations the new per-minute fee is roughly ~0.1% of the effective per-minute cost our customers avoid by using our fixed-price model.…

> Streaming logs and other supporting functionality

GitHub's log streaming also sucks. It's very laggy and chunked, whereas GitLab's is pretty much real-time.

Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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Post by gitpusher »

timvdalen wrote: post #179

Our current GitHub bill is $90/month, this would add an additional $700/month. I don't see how this doesn't cause a mass outflux.

Curious: Can you expand a little bit on your usage? $700/month equates to 350,000 minutes. Are you just running a truck-load of different Actions, or are the Actions themselves long-lived (waiting on something to complete)?

Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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Post by azemetre »

StrLght wrote: post #183
wyldfire wrote: post #167

If this gives you pause, consider these hosted alternatives as another option: * Codeberg https://codeberg.org/ * Sourcehut https://sr.ht/ [1] [1] https://sourcehut.org/alpha-details/

Codeberg's uptime is so bad, that it actually makes GitHub look good. ~96.5% over last 2 weeks [1] [1]: https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg

I'm sure if Codeberg had equivalent resources they'd be good, hard to fault a nonprofit for not benefiting from a trillion dollar multinational corporation. What was GitHub's excuse for their failures?

Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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Post by crohr »

Probably long overdue, but per-minute price vs per-job is quite expensive. Wouldn’t like to be in the shoes of “only” 2x cheaper third parties. If they follow up with faster runners… interested to see if they ever come up with a good SDK for their scale set API, will integrate it in RunsOn!

Re: Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

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Post by bearforcenine »

999900000999 wrote: post #138

There has to be a VC in this thread, go ahead and fund a GitHub competitor that offers a flat monthly(yearly?) rate. Focus on the enterprise. Something like a 3000$ minimum yearly price. Direct customer support with real engineers no questions asked. Need someone to setup your CICD, that's another fee, but on staff engineers will get it done. Edit: I'd even imagine a company like this can bootstrap, I'd need help tho…

It's Jujutsu based, but I imagine East River Source Control https://ersc.io/ may be building a GitHub competitor.
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