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Gitlab CI/CD pipelines are my go-to tool. At work we self host an instance, for personal projects I use gitlab.com.
Where's the Bazel people at?
IMO, Gitlab CI/CD blows Github out of the water. They're not even in the same league. I recommend Gitlab + self hosted runners (it's so easy).
I've been using Gitlab for many years and host my own runners as of the past 6 months because I nearly exhausted my monthly free tier runner minutes one month.
I second GitLab CI/CD - it's a CI/CD system that just makes sense to me. That doesn't mean it doesn't have its complexities depending on your needs, but I've overall enjoyed my time working with it.
I self-host https://woodpecker-ci.org/ and I love it. It was easy to set up, and I never have to worry about CI/CD minutes.
Forgejo has their own runner: https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/actions/runner-installation/
I've used it on my personal machine, was very easy to setup and mostly compatible with GitHub actions out-of-the-box (including things like actions/checkout@v4).
Forgejo runners are great! I found some simple actions to do docker in docker and now build all my images with them!
It's still yaml shit though.
I'm using gitea which has CI compatible to GitHub actions with my own runner. It's pretty straightforward to set up and didn't give me any headaches yet. It's a very small instance just for my ownaybe dozen projects though.
CI compatible to GitHub actions
Ugh. More yaml?
This is what I was using till I switched to forgejo and never got around to setting up one of their runners.
If it helps motivate you to give it a shot, I found gitea's runner very confusing to set up, but I felt like forgejo was better designed, pretty easy and well documented.
heck yeah this is the review i was looking for 💯
good lead. it’s just the one project for now, and to my surprise it’s actually a dependency for the ollama-rs project, so i feel somewhat obligated to keep it stable.
Are you sure it was a price "increase"?
I got a similar email this morning but it was the exact opposite of what I expected upon closer examination:
https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-pricing
you’re right. i just expected it to be an increase 😅
Watching this thread because CI/CD is something that I'd like to get into.
Ditto
Used to use travis or clicleci and they both worked really well. Theres some issues with travis being old/expensive and circle got in touble for a few security issues though. gitlab has some nice tools from my experience.
Im interested as well. Ive got a forgjo that I would love to hook into at some point.
fwiw, you can self host a GitHub actions runner
But you are charged for it.
Don't they want to monetize those as well?
yes, according to this morning’s email
ah right, my bad
I use cake build to create the build script and then I can run it from wherever.
btw, the prices of managed runners are going down, not increasing
https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-pricing#standard-github-hosted-runners
still good to have a self-hosted alternative though
i honestly didn’t look that close, obviously haha
but yeah, i’ve been kinda looking for a reason to de-Microsoft my stuff