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So many engineers could put the hours spent debugging GH actions to use developing expertise to run their own CI. But people either don’t believe they can, can’

So many engineers could put the hours spent debugging GH actions to use developing expertise to run their own CI. But people either don’t believe they can, can’t convince decision makers to let them try, or just want to fix their own problem and move on. I was convinced GH actions was best practice and it was normal to waste hours on try-and-pray build debugging, until one day GH actions went down and I ran deploys from my laptop and remembered how much better life can be without it.. (Solo dev here - but opensource CI on an EC2 instance can be just as nice)

Marsymars 9mo ago
> So many engineers could put the hours spent debugging GH actions to use developing expertise to run their own CI. If I run my own CI, then the compliance team has to get involved to run various endpoint security and update management tools on whatever system I'm running the CI on.
- cadamsdotcom 9mo ago
  Then the costs of staying with GH actions need to be made known so they can be balanced against the cost of doing things differently. Of course there’s a cost involved in just getting those numbers too. It’s all trade offs.