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GitHub Actions was having an outage
- gigatexal 4y agoThis is where a locally hosted gitlab instance becomes very handy.
- Yuioup 4y agoCan you do CI/CD with it?
- thunfisch 4y agoYes. We use a self-hosted GitLab instance with autoscaling runners.
- pritambarhate 4y agoYes Gitlab has support for CI/CD. It's available in OSS version also. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/ https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/
- Benjamin_Dobell 4y agoNot that it's in any way official, however you can run Github Actions locally with https://github.com/nektos/act https://github.com/nektos/act
- adamgordonbell 4y agoI found this so hard to get working. Actually I didn't even get it working, I think I had some dependencies in my build that weren't in ACT or something.
- shaky-carrousel 4y agoIt is probably windows forcing a reboot on all the machines.
- rvz 4y agoAgain? Last time that happened was just 5 days ago. [0] Looks like going all in on Github and GitHub Actions doesn't make any sense. Perhaps for larger organizations like ARM and open-source orgs like ReactOS, RedoxOS, GNOME, etc perhaps it is now time to self-host? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31527039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31527039
- Vogtinator 4y agoGNOME (like KDE) self-host their own GitLab.
- the_duke 4y agoGitlab, Redox and ARM all all on custom Gitlab deployments. They were probably intended as examples of self-hosting companies, just with confusing wording.
- jacooper 4y agoI mean if paying for unlimited CI/CD is just some outages in every few months, then I think its worth it. Even though i know its certainly a trap, github wouldn't keep actions free.
- timvdalen 4y agoGitHub Actions isn't free
- exdsq 4y agoIt is for most startups, but not megacorp which has the money anyway. I’ve never gotten close to hitting the CI minutes cap in companies < 100 engineers.
- synu 4y agoThe cap is 2000, will 50 engineers for example really only need 40 minutes of build time each in an entire month? That’s like 5-10 builds, depending on your build duration.. just one or two a week or so. You might use all that up in a single pull request. In a really productive month my two person startup had to buy more minutes.
- NmAmDa 4y agoshouldn't title be github actions having outage? because title implies that github is not working.
- Mordisquitos 4y agoPlus, I would argue that the "another" is unnecessary and editorialising.
- cube2222 4y agoFixed both, thanks!
- stingraycharles 4y agoWorth noting that this is a Github Actions outrage, as far as I can see normal git operations are working normal. Maybe it should be included in the title.
- the_duke 4y agoFriendly reminder of the day: Always have an established and regularly tested workflow for manual deployments that doesn't rely on CI jobs. You'll need it sooner or later.
- rozenmd 4y agoYour CI should be the automation of an existing, manual process for this reason. Should the automation fail, your manual process still works.
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- pid-1 4y agoThat's why my CI pipelines never rely on proprietary stuff. I use multistage Dockerfiles + Buildkit to implement secrets caching, etc... My CI scripts just do "docker build" and "docker publish". It makes doing things locally much easier.
- imdsm 4y agoI've always resisted the change to GHA, preferring instead tried and tested Jenkins and docker workflows. Sure, multi-agent GHA is nice, but when it's down, what do you do? We don't even work in offices to have swordfights in anymore.
- zinekeller 4y agoI agree here, looking now it seems that I would need three pairs of hands to count how many times Actions have gone down every year. It feels like Actions itself is not ready for production use. Also nice XKCD reference (https://xkcd.com/303/ https://xkcd.com/303/)!
- mrweasel 4y agoI wasn't aware that there's a "docker publish" command. Is that an add-on or how does that work?
- ankraft 4y agoIt’s already resolved.
- plonk 4y agoSeems to have been resolved in less than an hour.
- mupuff1234 4y agoWhat infrastructure/cloud is github using?
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- phphphphp 4y agoAzure.
- mupuff1234 4y agoWas this always the case or did they migrate after the acquisition?
- exdsq 4y agoI’m not convinced their constant outages is related to Azure itself, as Azure is very stable. It could be a change of internal staff.
- mupuff1234 4y agoIt doesn't have to be due to Azure itself but the migration process itself (which can sometimes take years)
- exdsq 4y agoI misread the OP as a suggestion it was stable before Azure and is no longer stable on Azure as a general Anti-Microsoft comment. Yes, you’re right.
- jabiko 4y agoGitHub Actions was only launched after the acquisition. It always ran on Azure.
- tete 4y ago
- katejo 4y agowow done on quickly bases. Great
- smcleod 4y agoThird outage in the last week, I have to say GitHub has seemingly become a lot less reliable over the last 3-4 years.
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- agilob 4y agoThis is your daily GitHub Actions outage post