Why am I seeing charges and free-minute warnings from Blacksmith runners?
I signed up for Blacksmith about a week ago because its GitHub Actions runners were impressively fast. However, I've already received a $7 bill, along with a warning…
self-hosted runners
What’s the Recommended Way to Run Windows Self-Hosted CI Runners on Kubernetes?
I'm looking for a commonly recommended architecture for deploying Windows self-hosted runners on Kubernetes. From what I can tell, the controller's support for Windows—especially with current runner scale…
What’s the Recommended Way to Run GitHub Actions Windows Runners on Kubernetes?
I'm trying to find a widely recommended reference architecture for deploying Windows self-hosted runners for GitHub Actions on Kubernetes. From what I can tell, the Actions Runner Controller…
Are Lambda MicroVMs a practical choice for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners?
Has anyone else tried running self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on Lambda MicroVMs? The pricing looks attractive: roughly $0.0042 per minute compared with about $0.005 per minute for a…
GitHub Actions Jobs Wait Until a Second Job Is Queued on ARC in EKS
I recently joined an organization that runs GitHub Actions on self-hosted runners using Actions Runner Controller (ARC) in Amazon EKS. The first job pushed to the workflow remains…