blacksmith.sh just raised tens of millions on the core premise that self-hosting CI/CD is hard [0].

they've had multiple outages in the last week, so i guess they are proving themselves correct.

in practice, giving ssh/sudo to AI (codex) and telling it to setup ephemeral self-hosted runners on your own host VM (qemu), takes about 30 minutes and works extremely well. it bangs out all the shell scripts. moved my own business over to it. zero problems.

you might even find it is kind of neat too. you can customize your VM with software pre-installed. speeds up your builds quite a bit.

[0] https://www.blacksmith.sh/blog/blacksmith-seed-announcement