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very interesting idea! How much cheap is this as compared to github actions? also why are you using gcloud? would certain other competitors like aws/(hetzner?

• jillesvangurp 1y ago
  We don't really pay for gh actions; we're staying below the freemium limit. We use gcloud for convenience. Our production environment is there. So spinning up a vm is easy. Our builds also deploy there so we need gcloud credentials in our gh actions anyway. It only runs for a few hours per month in total. So the cost isn't very high. A few dollar at most. No time for blog posts but feel free to adapt my gh action: https://gist.github.com/jillesvangurp/cccf5f9d61f4b457a994dc5abd0f2371 https://gist.github.com/jillesvangurp/cccf5f9d61f4b457a994dc... It basically runs a script on the vm. Should be fairly easy to adapt. There's a bit of bash in there that waits for the machine to come up before it does the ssh command that runs the build script.