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I used CircleCI a long time ago, just before and after 2.0, and thought it was fine. These days GitHub Actions is awesome and full featured and does everything
by tedmiston 5y ago
I used CircleCI a long time ago, just before and after 2.0, and thought it was fine.
These days GitHub Actions is awesome and full featured and does everything I want though without getting in the way. I doubt I'd use anything besides GHA unless I wanted to decouple from GitHub as a dependency.
Even then, I wouldn't be surprised if someone else hasn't already come up with an open source or local runner for the GHA yaml files as a stopgap.
- watermelon0 5y agoTwo downsides of GHA that I could find: - you are limited to 2 core / 7 GB instance, whereas CircleCI offers up to 16 cores / 64 GB (for example, building software usually scales proportionately to machine size, and this can in theory be up to 8x faster on CircleCI) - no support for ARM instances
- tedmiston 5y agoThe details you listed sound accurate for the built-in GitHub-hosted runners. GHA also supports bringing your own self-hosted runners [1][2] where you install their agent, so you could, e.g., use an ARM instance on AWS with tons of cores. It looks like CircleCI offers this as well. [1]: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/about-self-hosted-runners https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/... [2]: https://github.com/actions/runner https://github.com/actions/runner