[thinkafterbef]

The feature pull request has been there for over a year[1], it’s nice that’s it’s released!

Incoming shameless plug; if you don’t have to handle the hosting runners, but still to reap the benefits of having proper hardware(close to the metal). Check out BuildJet for GitHub actions - 2x the speed for half the price. Easy to install and easy to revert.

[1] https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/660 [2] https://buildjet.com/for-github-actions

[hardwaresofton]

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]: https://surplusci.com

[growse]

Buildjet seems to be KVM-based, so does the job still runs in a VM?

Does it support nested KVM, e.g. for running Android espresso / emulator tests?

[thinkafterbef]

Yes, job runs in a KVM VM. Nested KVM is supported on the hypervisor, but KVM is not enabled by default in guest OS, due to we run a guest kernel for faster booting time. We will offer an option to enable kvm kernel module in the future.

[veidr]

Wow that looks like exactly what I need. We recently moved to GHA and while it is nice in many ways, my main complaint is that unlike our previous (AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline) setup, we can't just pay more to get more powerful instances to run CI.

Looking into setting up self-hosted runners has been on my todo list since the first day of using GHA; will definitely check out your service soon.