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by Imustaskforhelp 399 days ago
very interesting idea!

How much cheap is this as compared to github actions?

also why are you using gcloud? would certain other competitors like aws/(hetzner? if we are talking about vps) also suit the case.

I would love it if you could write a blog post about it.

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We don't really pay for gh actions; we're staying below the freemium limit.

We use gcloud for convenience. Our production environment is there. So spinning up a vm is easy. Our builds also deploy there so we need gcloud credentials in our gh actions anyway. It only runs for a few hours per month in total. So the cost isn't very high. A few dollar at most.

No time for blog posts but feel free to adapt my gh action: https://gist.github.com/jillesvangurp/cccf5f9d61f4b457a994dc...

It basically runs a script on the vm. Should be fairly easy to adapt. There's a bit of bash in there that waits for the machine to come up before it does the ssh command that runs the build script.