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Re: GitHub Actions Down

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Post by pilif » Mon, May 17, 2021, 11:45 AM UTC

easton wrote: post #42

iBotPeaches wrote: post #24

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In our case, we use a mac mini solely for building mobile applications via fastlane with a self-runner. Doing that with the GitHub runner on Mac would be mega expensive. The rest of the CI/test process runs on GitHub runners.

Does that work with M1/Apple Silicon Macs or Intel-only?

GitHub right now only has their self-hosted Mac runner released as an Intel Build, but it works fine through Rosetta, though running Apple Silicon Xcode might require some additional wrapping of commands with `arch` which might or might not be built into the pre-built action you're using.

We're currently using an Intel Mac we've used from before we migrated from Jenkins to GitHub actions, so your mileage may vary.

Re: GitHub Actions Down

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Post by ddlsmurf » Mon, May 17, 2021, 3:44 PM UTC

waheoo wrote: post #49

ddlsmurf wrote: post #13

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Personally I'd rather they focus on the issue rather than negotiating with PR and legal to formulate an e-mail. If you rely on an external service and don't monitor it that's on you.

What a trite response. The question was do they do a email if your job is delayed or late for whatever reason? Not, hey why don't they email us all right now about the issue. And no, it's not on me to monitor every little thing I rely on. Do you monitor kernel updates? I bet you don't. Besides that monitoring and logging for any provided service is exactly how one is supposed to monitor said external services so aski…

Well, I do, but yes no one can monitor everything. The question was should they have sent an e-mail and I shared my preference whereas to their prioritization of resources. And yes, if something I wasn't monitoring breaks, I still assume responsibility, most especially if it affects production. And no it wasn't rude, you seem very sensitive.

Re: GitHub Actions Down

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Post by twistedpair » Tue, May 18, 2021, 4:09 PM UTC

rvz wrote: post #4

So now I am expecting a major GitHub Actions incident (worst case, the whole of GitHub) to go down every single month at least once. Last time this went down was last month. [0] I now doubt if they can consistently manage more than a month without a major incident like this one. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26666843

Down ~4~ 9 hours so far today.

Re: GitHub Actions Down

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Post by twistedpair » Tue, May 18, 2021, 4:16 PM UTC

sebmellen wrote: post #10

We build an Electron app for MacOS regularly. We run these builds on Github’s MacOS VMs. The internet fails to connect when running yarn install about 3 out of every 5 times. We’ve gotten multiple refunds for this issue, but it’s still a complete mess. Unfortunately we’ve built much of our process around GH Actions... if not I’m sure we would be on CircleCI or TravisCI already. We’ve also considered switching to self…

FWIW, GitHub Actions macs are MacStadium macs.