[rurban]

Actions runs on Azure, actions were only possible with Microsoft.

[ctvo]

Ah yes. No one else on the internet will rent you servers.

[JMS2021]

Action Runners are basically NodeJS applications packaged self-contained. You can run Action Runners on a RPi if you want.

GitHub.com (not GHE) use Action Runners deployed using K8S. This can be done anywhere that supports K8S.

Obviously MS used their own server infra, but to imply GitHub Actions needs Azure is plain false.

[aaomidi]

I mean more so in a way that they're eating that cost. Much harder to do when you're not making huge cash from another segment of your offerings.

[rurban]

financially.

it was created to make good free use of azure. before azure GitHub would not be able to afford a free ci infra. someone has to pay all those servers running for free.