My team has noticed that our expenses on GitHub runners have been climbing, and I'm interested in hearing how others are handling this situation. I've seen tools like Blacksmith but I'm curious if anyone has tried alternatives or if this is just a cost we should accept as part of doing business. How have others approached the costs associated with GitHub runners?
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At WarpBuild, we offer various options for CI/CD that can save you a ton of money. Our BYOC model can be about 30-40% cheaper than setups using Arc, and our fully managed cloud option often runs at 50-70% less than GitHub hosted runners. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have!
Have you checked out running self-hosted runners? It might be more economical to manage them on your own infrastructure.
One solid approach is to offload the heavy tasks to self-hosted runners with tools like Arc. We just consider the rest of our GitHub runner costs to be part of doing business.
I've managed to host our runners in Azure Container Apps, which are lightweight and quite inexpensive each month, depending on usage. Plus, you don't have to worry about managing or securing any VMs.
As a solo developer on a personal project, I've set up 4 self-hosted runners on the Oracle Cloud Free Tier, which has been fantastic. They provide Arm-based Ampere A1 cores with plenty of resources, so it's been a cost-effective solution for me.
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