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by ozgune 872 days ago
Hi there, I'm Ozgun, one of Ubicloud's founders.

We have dozens of customers using Ubicloud runners in production today. We’re now designing our caching layer (Docker instance registry, Docker layer cache, or package cache). We wanted to put this out there for any comments.

Also, if you have any points related to the broader topic of an open and portable cloud, please pass them along!
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maxmcd 872 days ago
Yes, please do what Depot does and put fast persistent disks close to builds to cache docker layers. Github action runners and circleci and all the others adding expensive network calls to manually cache layers has always been such a time sink and I think moves lots of people to remove caching entirely.
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kylegalbraith 871 days ago
Depot [0] founder here. Thanks for the mention. We're also planning on bringing a bit of a different take to GitHub Action runners that's not tied to Hetzner directly. It will be entirely open-source as well, so you can take it and run it on your own instances if you'd like. Similar to how Depot supports self-hosted builders in your own AWS account [1].

[0] https://depot.dev/

[1] https://depot.dev/docs/self-hosted/architecture

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maxloh 871 days ago
Could you upload your build of GitHub's runner image to Docker Hub?

This would be quite useful for users of other GitHub Actions clones like act [0].

[0]: https://github.com/nektos/act

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