GitHub Actions: Ephemeral self-hosted runners and new webhooks for auto-scaling

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SurplusCI

It's a bit of an old drum to beat on but just want to note that GitLab has supported this (and provides docs for running on EC2, Fargate, k8s and other platforms like LXC[0][1][2][3]) for a very long time, and the CI system there is quite robust. I argue that the GitLab CI system, syntax (it's YAML like most others but somewhat easy to organize well with great documentation) and other features make it best-in-class. Competition is a good thing so in general I'm glad to see this finally supported by GHA and dig into it over the weekend. I run SurplusCI which does what you'd think (runs these runners in VMs) so getting this on-demand runners working happens bit top-of-mind, right now I only offer dedicated runners which are cheaper but of course aren't as cheap as on-demand (depending on usage). Speaking of competition, just learned of a competitor here on HN in BuildJet[4], so if you don't want to manage your own runners check them out as well. [0]: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/configuration/runner_autoscale_aws/ [1]: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/configuration/runner_autoscale_aws_fargate/ [2]: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/kubernetes.html [3]: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/custom_examples/lxd.html [4]: https://buildjet.com/for-github-actions [5]: https://surplusci.com.

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Packhelp

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DuckDuckGo

GitHub's own documentation about GHA has a nav section titled "Hosting your own runners". Here's a link: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=github+actions+self+hosted+runners.

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