For some reason I expected a "not-first-class" experience while using my own hosted runner but that was not the case. It works and behaves exactly as their own runners do. Maybe s/surprisingly/extremely would be more what I meant.
Just wanted to add, I loved your post on logging Nomad allocs using Loki. Was a huge help while I was setting up our clusters at $CURRENT_JOB
> For some reason I expected a "not-first-class" experience while using my own hosted runner but that was not the case. It works and behaves exactly as their own runners do.
Interesting, I've used GitLab extensively and hosted/self-hosted runners were trivial to use/run, so I would have expected nothing less from GitHub. They probably make a decent margin on the hosted runners at the cost of significant complexity, so if they can give that away to the orgs that will have their own (virtual) hardware anyway, with their own contracts and networking and etc., why not?
> Just wanted to add, I loved your post on logging Nomad allocs using Loki. Was a huge help while I was setting up our clusters at $CURRENT_JOB
Glad you found it helpful! If you ever want to chat about it, feel free to hit me up (contacts are on my website available in my profile).
Why surprisingly? Are there any CI/CD, let alone SaaS CI/CD providers, that don't make it easy?