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• ZFS and Ceph

  So to round off that square... I plan on doing exactly what I said doesn't make sense just 2 paragraphs ago:). I run a k8s cluster and up until now had been using Ceph on every node, but while running SurplusCI I realized that the DinD perf on top of Ceph was an absolute non-starter. To be fair, the full stack was docker in docker in qemu (KVM) on baremetal (like... Maybe 3 layered filesystem modules at that... Source: over 2 years ago

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

  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... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

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

  And a more shameless second plug, I run SurplusCI which does the same thing for GitHub and GitLab with a few other platforms on the horizon. I can say we're less than half the price, because we focus solely on dedicated hardware and dedicated compute. We're working onworking on pay-for-what-you-use as we speak, and this issue finally getting resolved has generated work for me this weekend. [0]:... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• What problems have you actually solved with kubernetes?

  SurplusCI runs on Kubernetes :) KubeVirt and the abstractions provided by Kubernetes make it easy. Source: over 2 years ago

• Fast Rust Builds

  Most building systems offer a way to cache build results (ex. gitlab), so the largest speedups usually come from there. Another way is to use an explicit “builder image” with packs your dependencies and an older version of the program into the starting point for the run. Yet another way is to just use bigger machines if you’re CPU bound. Github and Gitlab generally offer 1/2 core 3-8GB RAM instances, but... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• What CI/CD are you using for on-prem Kubernetes?

  If you're balking at bills, please check out SurplusCI, it's a service built on KubeVirt that does what you'd expect -- provides you dedicated CPU runners (bigger than what's available at GitHub/GitLab, and cheaper) for your work loads! Source: over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack (2021)?

  Single person company with a few products out now: https://surplusci.com - Rentable dedicated CPU runners for GitHub Actions/GitLab CI. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Run your GitHub Actions locally

  Well it's not quite there but I'm working on something like this @ SurplusCI (https://surplusci.com). It's a paid service but one of my big goals is to gather all the platforms that support self hosted runners under one site. Source: over 2 years ago

• Announcing SurplusCI - dedicated runners for your CI Pipelines

  I just launched a new service called SurplusCI (https://surplusci.com), and would love if you gave it a try -- there's a demo which is only half a vCore but since it's dedicated it's not TOO terrible (I should probably raise that to 1 or 2 vCores so people get a better feel for the service). Source: almost 3 years ago

• Gradle is killing our CI minutes -- recommendations to speed it up?

  If you're trying to stop worrying about CI costs at all or get runs done a little faster on beefier machines, please check out a new service I just launched -- https://surplusci.com. Source: almost 3 years ago