I recently switched from GitHub Actions to Buildkite + self-hosted runners.

Setting it all up would have been tediously annoying eight months ago (Buildkite requires setting up GitHub webhooks for each repo).

Last week I just had codex set up everything, ephemeral vm runners and all, using a couple of low-spec refurb mac minis, Buildkite’s API, a short-lived API token, and migrate my repositories one by one.

So far so good, it’ll pay for itself within two to three months, and following today’s outage I suggested at work that we experiment with the same set up.

They’re considering it.