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After this change I went from spending $2-4/day to <$0.25 (I left a few very small tasks on GH Actions)
joshstrange on Hacker News
went from spending $2-4/day to <$0.25
In the thread “Our GitHub Actions bill kept climbing, so we moved CI to one box”
Helped: Using local VMs for CI tasks reduced costs and improved speed.
… I used a custom image containing only what I needed and that's worked really well for me so far and it's easy to add more to it if needed in the future. After this change I went from spending $2-4/day to <$0.25 (I left a few very small tasks on GH Actions). It's not always the right call and for paid workers I'd reach for WarpBuild or similar most of the time (WarpBuild still runs my deploys/iOS builds) but for all the PR-check actions, those work just fine on my local server. …