alt Hacker News> We are introducing a $0.002 per-minute Actions cloud platform charge for all Actions workflows across GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners.
Charging for self-hosted runners is an interesting choice. That's the same cost as their smallest hosted runners [1]
[1] - https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-...
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it'd be great if they can couple this with an SLA for GitHub actions so we won't have to end up paying as much..
(ofc, that'd only mean they stop updating the status page, so eh)
It also seems odd that there's no discussion of using webhooks to replace the self-hosted runners for free, given that it would basically be working the same way. The only difference is who commits get attributed to, and where you go for logs and artifacts (these can probably ride along draft/prereleases or something)
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
Rugpull 101. It’s how you make money in the current economy.
It's because there are easy-to-use third party runners that cost around 3-10x less than the GitHub ones. This is aimed squarely at them.
enshittification
Pushing you towards their hosted runners which will show up in their Azure usage numbers and drive the stock price