Watching this thread because CI/CD is something that I’d like to get into.

fwiw, you can self host a GitHub actions runner

I’m using gitea which has CI compatible to GitHub actions with my own runner. It’s pretty straightforward to set up and didn’t give me any headaches yet. It’s a very small instance just for my ownaybe dozen projects though.

Used to use travis or clicleci and they both worked really well. Theres some issues with travis being old/expensive and circle got in touble for a few security issues though. gitlab has some nice tools from my experience.

Im interested as well. Ive got a forgjo that I would love to hook into at some point.

btw, the prices of managed runners are going down, not increasing

docs.github.com/en/…/actions-runner-pricing#stand…

still good to have a self-hosted alternative though

I use cake build to create the build script and then I can run it from wherever.

Forgejo has their own runner: forgejo.org/docs/latest/…/runner-installation/

I’ve used it on my personal machine, was very easy to setup and mostly compatible with GitHub actions out-of-the-box (including things like actions/checkout@v4).

name: Kaniko
description: Build a container image using Kaniko
inputs:
  Dockerfile:
    description: The Dockerfile to pass to Kaniko
    required: true
  image:
    description: Name and tag under which to upload the image
    required: true
  registry:
    description: Domain of the registry. Should be the same as the first path component of the tag.
    required: true
  username:
    description: Username for the container registry
    required: true
  password:
    description: Password for the container registry
    required: true
  context:
    description: Workspace for the build
    required: true
runs:
  using: docker
  image: docker://gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:debug
  entrypoint: /bin/sh
  args:
    - -c
    - |
      mkdir -p /kaniko/.docker
      echo '{"auths":{"${{ inputs.registry }}":{"auth":"'$(pr

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IMO, Gitlab CI/CD blows Github out of the water. They’re not even in the same league. I recommend Gitlab + self hosted runners (it’s so easy).

I’ve been using Gitlab for many years and host my own runners as of the past 6 months because I nearly exhausted my monthly free tier runner minutes one month.

sourcehut.org

Are you sure it was a price “increase”?

I got a similar email this morning but it was the exact opposite of what I expected upon closer examination:

https://docs.github.com/en/billing/reference/actions-runner-pricing

Jenkins

I self-host woodpecker-ci.org and I love it. It was easy to set up, and I never have to worry about CI/CD minutes.

Gitlab CI/CD pipelines are my go-to tool. At work we self host an instance, for personal projects I use gitlab.com.

Where’s the Bazel people at?

Magnetic needle. Steady hand.

So many these days. Actions are probably one of the best, but there are still plenty of others out there.

• gitlab
• dagger
• concourseci
• tekton
• Spinnaker
• harness
• argo
• flux
• gocd

If I were to pick one, it would probably be dagger. Or really anything but Jenkins.

Forgejo and self hosted action workers.

I do devops at work and my experience is that really any CI/CD system works, they all have enough features to do what you want. They all fundamentally just run scripts on boxes. Therefore, I say pick the easiest one, likely the one that is built into whatever Git system you are using.

Try to keep your pipelines simple-ish when you can, they almost never need to be that complicated. 95% of the time it’s just running a command or two. If a pipeline needs to do something complex, I’d recommend writing that script into the Git repo and calling it, rather than having a CI job that is 100 lines long.

Please don’t take me as a GH shill because I’m not. I’m not sure we read the same email given your projects. Actions on GH runners are dropping in cost and there’s a new fractional cost for self-hosted. For the average user, especially those on GH runners, costs are going down. Looking at your repo, you haven’t run anything since July. Your workflow files use GH runners. Nothing in your history suggests you’re leaving the free tier so I don’t get this FUD at all. General Microsoft hate? Fuck yeah. Shitty GH service? Fuck yeah. Plenty of reasons to dunk but this was not one of them. M

We use Azure Devops at my current gig. It works pretty well for our setup. I’ve used GHA before; it definitely didn’t “spark joy”. I wastedspent way too many hours in the “update yaml file, commit, push, wait 5 minutes for it to fail again” spiral of despairfeedback loop.

Nice thing with ADO is its release dashboard – you get a really nice summary of recent builds and where they went:

$project - dev - test - prod

I didn’t see anything similar for GHA.

Git lab CI is my goto for git repo based things (unit tests, integration tests, etc). Fleet through Rancher for real deployments (manages and maintains state because kubernetes). Tekton is my in between catchall.

I’m currently looking into Concourse.

It does have steeper-than-average learning curve, but I really like that it has well-defined fundamentals (resources, jobs, tasks) and isolation with OCI containers. Before I adopt it fully, I want it to run my nix flake dev shell.

GitHub Actions mostly.

The rest is usually plumbing and code to support it. The actions are just the automated execution environment.

Self-hosted Forgejo Actions on a Codeberg repository. It was relatively easy to setup and I don’t even need a VPS through my dynamic IP 5G connexion. See also: codeberg.org/trougnouf/cfait

Woodpecker CI

Woodpecker. No BS CI which can be attached to pretty much anything. It just need a webhook and way to pull your project.