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by logankeenan 188 days ago
I guess I’ll start to look at an alternative to GitHub self hosted runners.

It’s been awhile since I looked. What’s a good alternative?

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Are there any good CI systems to begin with? joking, but not really

Jenkins has been rock solid, we are trying to migrate to Argo Workflows/Events, but there are a complaints (like deploying argo workflows with helm, such fun!)

I've been using dagger.io and it's been really nice to work with.

- runs locally

- has a language server: python, typescript, go, java, OR elixer

- has static typing

- the new caching mechanisms introduced in 0.19.4 are chef's kiss

I do not work for dagger and pay for it using the company credit card. A breath of fresh air after the unceasing misery and pain that is Gitlab and GHA.

I use Dagger as well, since v0.1.2, even worked on the CUE stuff around then with them.

I wouldn't call it a CI system though, but certainly the philosophy that local and CU should be running the same thing saves many hours of frustration.

I'm currently using Dagger to create forkable/rewindable agent sessions and environments (not with their agent nonsense). Dagger is a pretty sweet piece of tech, so many uses for programmatic container layers

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I am just waiting for GitHub starting to charge for API usage ...
"Jenkins is the worst form of CI, except for all those other forms that have been tried."

-- Winston Churchill (probably)

On the heavy side, but TeamCity is full of goodies.