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The feature pull request has been there for over a year[1], it’s nice that’s it’s released! Incoming shameless plug; if you don’t have to handle the hosting ru

The feature pull request has been there for over a year[1], it’s nice that’s it’s released! Incoming shameless plug; if you don’t have to handle the hosting runners, but still to reap the benefits of having proper hardware(close to the metal). Check out BuildJet for GitHub actions - 2x the speed for half the price. Easy to install and easy to revert. [1] https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/660 https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/660 [2] https://buildjet.com/for-github-actions https://buildjet.com/for-github-actions

growse 5y ago
Buildjet seems to be KVM-based, so does the job still runs in a VM? Does it support nested KVM, e.g. for running Android espresso / emulator tests?
- thinkafterbef 5y ago
  Yes, job runs in a KVM VM. Nested KVM is supported on the hypervisor, but KVM is not enabled by default in guest OS, due to we run a guest kernel for faster booting time. We will offer an option to enable kvm kernel module in the future.
veidr 5y ago
Wow that looks like exactly what I need. We recently moved to GHA and while it is nice in many ways, my main complaint is that unlike our previous (AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline) setup, we can't just pay more to get more powerful instances to run CI. Looking into setting up self-hosted runners has been on my todo list since the first day of using GHA; will definitely check out your service soon.
hardwaresofton 5y ago
And a more shameless second plug, I run SurplusCI which does the same thing for GitHub and GitLab with a few other platforms on the horizon. I can say we're less than half the price, because we focus solely on dedicated hardware and dedicated compute. We're working onworking on pay-for-what-you-use as we speak, and this issue finally getting resolved has generated work for me this weekend. [0]: https://surplusci.com https://surplusci.com

growse 5y ago

Buildjet seems to be KVM-based, so does the job still runs in a VM? Does it support nested KVM, e.g. for running Android espresso / emulator tests?

thinkafterbef 5y ago
Yes, job runs in a KVM VM. Nested KVM is supported on the hypervisor, but KVM is not enabled by default in guest OS, due to we run a guest kernel for faster booting time. We will offer an option to enable kvm kernel module in the future.

veidr 5y ago

Wow that looks like exactly what I need. We recently moved to GHA and while it is nice in many ways, my main complaint is that unlike our previous (AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline) setup, we can't just pay more to get more powerful instances to run CI. Looking into setting up self-hosted runners has been on my todo list since the first day of using GHA; will definitely check out your service soon.

hardwaresofton 5y ago

And a more shameless second plug, I run SurplusCI which does the same thing for GitHub and GitLab with a few other platforms on the horizon. I can say we're less than half the price, because we focus solely on dedicated hardware and dedicated compute. We're working onworking on pay-for-what-you-use as we speak, and this issue finally getting resolved has generated work for me this weekend. [0]: https://surplusci.com https://surplusci.com