r/github • u/skyslut7 • 56m ago
Tool / Resource best drop-in replacement runners github actions? PR builds keep sitting in queue and the bill is kinda stupid
team of about 15 devs, docker heavy monorepo. we've been on github hosted runners forever and it was fine until recently. now PR builds sit in queue 5-10 min at peak and the bill is kinda stupid for what we get
tried ARC on our k8s cluster for a few weeks. cheaper yeah but i was babysitting the autoscaling and DinD builds were slower than hosted lol. not doing that again
so now looking at the managed ones. blacksmith, depot, namespace and avrea keep getting thrown around, also runs-on since it lives in your own aws. dont wanna rewrite our workflows, ideally i just change the runs-on line and be done
what are you all running instead? anyone using one of these on a docker heavy repo?