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by AdamMeghji 925 days ago
Awesome. Do docker image layers persist across build runs? Github, BuildJet, etc. use ephemeral runners, so subsequent runs have to re-pull everything from scratch, which is where most of my actions' time is spent now. If you're able to persist these across runs, that'd be a reason to switch alone.
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We have this with https://depot.dev out of the box. You connect to a native BuildKit and run your Docker image build on native Intel and Arm CPUs with fast persistent SSD cache orchestrated across builds. It’s immediately there on the next build without having to save/load it over the network.
Not yet, but coming soon (~2 weeks)
This will, by itself, immediately sell me. I’ve spent countless hours and lots of deep deep reading trying to get satisfactory results on GitHub Actions, with no success. From what I’ve seen, plenty of other people are in the same boat.
I'll keep hn posted!