alt Hacker NewsI 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.
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Maybe switching to https://github.com/gitlabhq :)
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.
gitlab-ce can run all the integration tests in docker et al.
Sitting on Github these days is the same as sticking to twitter a decade ago, expect next mecha hitler, I suppose.
GitHub implements self hosted runners by running a normal runner that passes the environment to your runner and then polls it. That's why they cost as much as the smallest GitHub-hosted runner.
This is no surprise given standard Microsoft operating procedure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242