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GitHub Actions Degraded

43 points by Inversechi 6y ago

rvz 6y ago
Again? This is the third time this month. The same thing happened just recently but for the whole of GitHub just 3 days ago: [0] Most likely related to the Microsoft 365 Azure outage. [1] This really doesn't look good for GitHub. Self-hosting a backup sounds like a more sensible option than 'going all in' on someone else's server or 'centralising everything' on GitHub, as I have once again said before. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26439436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26439436 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26469142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26469142
- macjohnmcc 6y ago
  I had an issue like this with Power Automate Desktop yesterday and today. It was trying to retrieve my automation script from their servers I'm sure and there was no response.
- capableweb 6y ago
  It's almost like everything becoming more centralized leads to more outages, complacency and status quo that slows down innovation and reduces redundancy.
  - altcognito 6y ago
    Kinda, but based on ye olden times experience, we were all much worse at running our own hardware. I will agree that despite the relatively high reliability, I think we'll likely have a black swan event at some point in the future that we will regret not having tested off site disaster plans.
  - wilg 6y ago
    [citation needed]
  - yftsui 6y ago
    How does this has anything to do with centralization? These recent GitHub outage largely linked with Azure outages, it is either they are migrating to Azure or the migration caused Azure outages
    - capableweb 6y ago
      Large tech companies tend to buy other companies when they grow and with that, centralize the ecosystem. Microsoft buying GitHub and moving all the infrastructure to Microsoft is a classic example on centralization. And the frequent downtimes are another classic example on the drawbacks of centralization.
- smnscu 6y ago
  FWIW I'm self-hosting a Gitea instance on a server <200 miles away from me. I thought it'd be a stupid idea, but setting it up properly was a lot of fun, and it's just stupid, crazy fast compared to anything managed.
  - FpUser 6y ago
    My clients mostly ask for Github but for my own products I use self hosted Gitea with backup and parallel server just in case
gauravphoenix 6y ago
the worst part is that even the self hosted runners are impacted so it is likely that their scheduling system is down
- cguess 6y ago
  I'm having issues on Heroku right now with git deploys not getting the right and updated code set. Took me far too long to notice the warning bar at the top of the page.
nickthemagicman 6y ago
Hacker news, azure, github. The internet gods are angry today

43 points by Inversechi 6y ago

rvz 6y ago

Again? This is the third time this month. The same thing happened just recently but for the whole of GitHub just 3 days ago: [0] Most likely related to the Microsoft 365 Azure outage. [1] This really doesn't look good for GitHub. Self-hosting a backup sounds like a more sensible option than 'going all in' on someone else's server or 'centralising everything' on GitHub, as I have once again said before. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26439436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26439436 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26469142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26469142

macjohnmcc 6y ago
I had an issue like this with Power Automate Desktop yesterday and today. It was trying to retrieve my automation script from their servers I'm sure and there was no response.
capableweb 6y ago
It's almost like everything becoming more centralized leads to more outages, complacency and status quo that slows down innovation and reduces redundancy.
- altcognito 6y ago
  Kinda, but based on ye olden times experience, we were all much worse at running our own hardware. I will agree that despite the relatively high reliability, I think we'll likely have a black swan event at some point in the future that we will regret not having tested off site disaster plans.
- wilg 6y ago
  [citation needed]
- yftsui 6y ago
  How does this has anything to do with centralization? These recent GitHub outage largely linked with Azure outages, it is either they are migrating to Azure or the migration caused Azure outages
  - capableweb 6y ago
    Large tech companies tend to buy other companies when they grow and with that, centralize the ecosystem. Microsoft buying GitHub and moving all the infrastructure to Microsoft is a classic example on centralization. And the frequent downtimes are another classic example on the drawbacks of centralization.
smnscu 6y ago
FWIW I'm self-hosting a Gitea instance on a server <200 miles away from me. I thought it'd be a stupid idea, but setting it up properly was a lot of fun, and it's just stupid, crazy fast compared to anything managed.
- FpUser 6y ago
  My clients mostly ask for Github but for my own products I use self hosted Gitea with backup and parallel server just in case

gauravphoenix 6y ago

the worst part is that even the self hosted runners are impacted so it is likely that their scheduling system is down

cguess 6y ago
I'm having issues on Heroku right now with git deploys not getting the right and updated code set. Took me far too long to notice the warning bar at the top of the page.

nickthemagicman 6y ago

Hacker news, azure, github. The internet gods are angry today