RunsOn Reviews and Details

Questions & Answers

1. What makes RunsOn unique?

   10x cheaper than GitHub official runners. Runs in your own AWS account. More secure than sharing your secrets with other third-party tools like BuildJet or Warpbuild.

2. Why should a person choose RunsOn over its competitors?

   Cheap, fast, on-premise alternative to maintaining self-hosted runners.

3. How would you describe the primary audience of RunsOn?

   CTO / Senior developers

4. What's the story behind RunsOn?

   Built a similar product for one of my clients, reduced CI build cost by 10 times, and improve build speed from 1h to 20min.

Is RunsOn good?

Social recommendations and mentions

• Surprise Pay $1000

  If you want a 'fixed' cost option for GitHub self hosted runners on your AWS I can't recommend https://runs-on.com/ enough. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• GitHub Actions down again today

  There are a couple and have very good reputation - though I've never used them https://www.blacksmith.sh/ They also say that they're much cheaper than github. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• GitHub Actions is the weakest link

  My team has been using https://runs-on.com/ for AWS instance runners, had a few glitches but largely been great for using AWS instances for runners. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team

  > You know how I know GitHub’s runners are bad? Because there’s an entire cottage industry of companies whose sole product is “GitHub Actions, but the runners don’t suck.” Namespace, Blacksmith, Actuated, Runs-on, BuildJet He's not wrong. Buildjet just announced they were shutting down though, citing recent improvements to the GitHub Actions platform. For the record I maintain the Runs-on [1] he's talking about,... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

  I am developing a self-hosted solution for this [1]. It’s true that it’s somewhat of a pain but JIT runners allow a lot of flexibility that we don’t find elsewhere. [1] https://runs-on.com. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Managed, self-hosted Arm runners for GitHub Actions using AWS Graviton Processors

  RunsOn is a self-hosted runner manager for GitHub Actions that you can install in your own AWS account. It will automatically spawn EC2 VMs as self-hosted runners for your GitHub Actions workflows. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

  I'm working on https://runs-on.com, a self-hosted solution to get 10x cheaper GitHub Actions runners with support for Linux x64 and arm64. This month I've been refining Windows support and hopefully this gets fully shipped before Aug 31st! - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Any CI/CD SaaS Solutions for ARM?

  You could also be interested in https://runs-on.com. Must be installed in your AWS account (1-click cloudformation template), and then you can use any instance type offered by AWS. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• GitHub now provides Arm-based runners

  > We were using self-hosted runners which were not as efficient as we thought so we spawned EC2 instances and connected them to the github network to be runners, but we had such an amount of issues that we wanted to go back to non-self hosted For those hitting that same kind of issue (and you are many), you should check out my product https://runs-on.com. 1-click install, 1-click upgrades, and from 7x to 16x... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Making EC2 boot time 8x faster

  > while we can boot the Actions runner within 5 seconds of a job starting, it can take GitHub 10+ seconds to actually deliver that job to the runner This. I went the same route with regards to boot time optimisations for [1] (cleaning up the AMI, cloud-init, etc.), and can boot a VM from cold in 15s (I can't rely on prewarming pools of machines -- even stopped -- since RunsOn doesn't share machines with multiple... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners. Reduces GitHub Actions bill 10x

  Yes, I wonder when/if GitHub decides to drop prices at some point. But in the meantime I’ve recently released RunsOn [1] with the same promise (10x cheaper, faster) but the whole thing runs in your AWS account. [1] https://runs-on.com. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago