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Hey guys, I can't stop thinking about this idea. So I have 6 years of exp as cloud and devops engineer which means I have spent a lot of time doing ci/cd and st
by vishu42 1y ago
Hey guys, I can't stop thinking about this idea. So I have 6 years of exp as cloud and devops engineer which means I have spent a lot of time doing ci/cd and stuff. And ci/cd usually runs on cloud which has a cost associated with it. Now i was thinking what if company can utilize the compute of the machines they give to employees to carry out such tasks like ci/cd. Simply put, companies should be able to run ci/cd on employees machines and reduce their spendings. WDYT? if anyone interested we can work on it together.
- the_arun 1y agoDon't want to discourage you. I've these questions: 1. Are you targeting startups or enterprises? 2. Do you foresee savings in the range of millions with this approach? 3. What if the ci/cd pipeline takes > x mins? should the laptop be turned on stayed connected to network during this time? 4. In an enterprise, a typical ci/cd pipeline get connected to other dependent services - eg. security pipeline (even 3P) etc. Now, every developer needs to onboard to those services?
- vishu42 1y ago1.) Well, both startups and enterprises. both can benefit from reduced costs. 2.) Haven't worked out any figure yet. 3.) I was thinking an agent could run on the laptop/machine exposing compute and making sure it doesn't sleep, also report availability i.e if it can schedule a job or not. 4.) Correct, it should be a drop-in replacement type of thing, where for instance only changing the runs-on bit in github actions should suffice. Machines could became part of a node-pool via vpn? and jobs could be scheduled on the ones that are available.
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