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AKA, the update where they start charging you to use your own hardware.
Microsoft does this is other products too.
For example, python runs inside of Excel now so you can finally make good figures with matplotlib.
But they intentionally slow code compilation so it takes around 5x as long as as spyder for the same code.
Then, your code will time out after a couple seconds of execution and you "have to buy compute tokens" in order to be able to compute it further with your own machine.
I love that they couch it in "fairness".
No GitHub, we see you pushing us off self hosted
Microsoft also charges you €13 a month for every running self hosted agent on Azure DevOps
To be fair, it's not that crazy - your agents are generating a lot of data that Azure DevOps is storing. And they're doing a bunch of other things like release management and showing test results over time, etc etc
I'm using Azure DevOps practically free - (unless I build way too much and run out of free credits for the month)
But since so many things in Azure DevOps are already free.. If you're going to start substituting the paid features like extra build agents with your own "free self hosted agents" then where are they getting any money from?
You're still using their hardware for the coordinator, artifact storage, etc. aren't you?
The last thing I want to be doing is defending microsoft, but this is inevitable in any free service. In fact this seems like one of the least-bad ways of enshittifying.
We should all be moving to self-hosting or shared hosting through a non-profit, but neither of those are going to be free.
Yeah, but charging $0.002/minute is pretty extreme for being a coordinator. That's the current per minute rate for single core GitHub actions. Is being a coordinator really consuming an entire vCPU of compute for your own runners?
FYI You already pay for artifact storage.
Did you know that actually self-hosted runners like the ones you can use with Forgejo are free forever? Never going back to GitHub ✌️
I'm surprised there aren't more companies offering managed Forgejo instances.
Okay. This is really bad for our company lol.
We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach.
any alternatives to GH that allow private repos and self-hosted action runners?
Gitlab is pretty good. Also a bit shady sometimes, but overall very nice and easy to get by with the free plan
Forgejo has been working wonders for me, highly recommend ^^
but the whole thing is self-hosted, not just the action runner, right?
Yeah, I believe so, sorry. I wonder if codeberg permits something like this?
Maybe. The problems I have with codeberg are the lack of support to private repos and the 100 repo limit. I have some personal stuff in version control that I prefer to keep private, like notes, dotfiles, and shell history.
At the same time, I'm not sure I want to maintain a self-hosted forge.
Forgejo has been really low maintenance for me. I update the docker image version every so often, and that's about it.
I've replaced gha and gitlab cicd with Dagger. I tried tekton, but it was pretty gnarly, and I'm a CKA.
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