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Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by kqgnkqgn »

tressure wrote: post #165
Isaackoz wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would you guys recommend as an alternative? Both hosted and/or self hosted

We have set up a new enterprise and are migrating to GHE. For us this was a no-brainer; we get our own isolated environment, Enterprise Managed Users with Entra OIDC provisioning and Github Copilot in EU data residency. https://eu.githubstatus.com/posts/dashboard looks pretty good to me. We will still keep our github.com enterprise around for public repositories. I’m genuinely curious to know why a company would pref…

I wasn't directly involved, but working in a couple of shops that used GH, I think they really steered people away from GHE, my impression was it's a product they don't really want to support - I vaguely recall hearing that upgrades were very painful on GHE, and the scaling / failover story was not great. Can anyone else confirm?

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by Bnjoroge »

duped wrote: post #32
arandomhuman wrote: post #21

I love how even self hosted workers don't work during these outages - running jobs on their infrastructure being flakey is marginally acceptable, but the API to simply schedule workflows having this availability is mind boggling. Github just doesn't seem like a serious company anymore.

I'm not sure that it's that mind boggling. The entire complexity and value of GHA is not in the runners but the scheduler that the GH frontend hooks into and runners subscribe to jobs from. It's the most likely thing to fall over. ' If the scheduling was self hosted it would be inexcusable but you can always just connect whatever you want to webhooks.

As someone who’s building a github actions control plane replacement, the scheduler is extremely simple. It basically the kost naive version of a FiFO queue.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by nerdypepper »

canadiantim wrote: post #208
niwtsol wrote: post #191

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Yeah, I think this one might be the straw that broke the camel's back and our team will look to migrate to something non-microsoft to be away from this nonsense.

What are the alternatives?

tangled supports selfhosted CI runners using NixOS microvms: https://blog.tangled.org/spindle-microvm/

selfhosted runners do not go down when our CI is down, its operates separately.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by mitchjj »

__initbrian__ wrote: post #266

All of the outages make sense to me as scaling issues. Each month, GitHub is getting the amount of commits they’d normally get in a year. And it’s growing > Yup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.) GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2…

As a comparison, Buildkite is now running 1.5B job mins per week without this downtime.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by mitchjj »

msyea wrote: post #258

I think this is because all frontier AI providers integrate with GitHub as a default git forge through their GitHub apps platform and their free tier is too generous. They should either charge some of these huge partners access to GitHub apps or partition the free tier off and have a different SLA. If the frontier AI used GitLab as a default I'm sure they'd be the ones suffering now.

The frontier AI (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Mistral, xAI, Perplexity plus more) all run CI on Buildkite, without the suffering.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by mitchjj »

muralimadhu wrote: post #144

Does anyone recommend an alternative? We've already moved our runners to blacksmith, looking for a control plane as well. We are tiny startup that ships at high velocity and this kind of downtime is highly disruptive for us

Let me know if you'd like help trying out Buildkite. Control plane with choice of hosting/hosted alongside lots of other flexible primitives.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by sitzkrieg »

judge2020 wrote: post #314
denysvitali wrote: post #172

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Microsoft acquisition which forced to migrate all to Azure.

And yet they still have a completely separate IDP for employees https://github.okta.com .

most companies do. do you mean they’re not using AD only?

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by RamblingCTO »

__initbrian__ wrote: post #266

All of the outages make sense to me as scaling issues. Each month, GitHub is getting the amount of commits they’d normally get in a year. And it’s growing > Yup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.) GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2…

This was posted elsewhere in the discussion: https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/ Went downhill long before LLMs
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