In this episode, we provided an overview of GitHub Action Runners and discussed the benefits of using self-hosted runners on AWS. We covered options including EC2 and CodeBuild for running GitHub Actions, compared pricing across solutions, and shared our hands-on experience setting things up. Overall, using AWS services can provide more control, lower latency, and cost optimization compared to GitHub hosted runners.
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The source code for the project we discussed is available on GitHub: fourTheorem/codebuild-gha-runners!
In this episode, we mentioned the following resources.
- Cloudonaut - Self-Hosted GitHub Runners on AWS
- AWS: Best Practices for Working with Self-Hosted GitHub Action Runners at Scale on AWS
- GitHub - philips-labs/terraform-aws-github-runner
- GitHub - garysassano/cdktf-aws-codebuild-github-runners-organization
- GitHub - machulav/ec2-github-runner
- AWS CodeBuild Managed Self-Hosted GitHub Action Runners
- HyperEnv - Self-hosted GitHub runners on AWS
- RunsOn - Self-hosted runners on AWS
- Actions Runner Controller for Kubernetes
- Biome
- SLIC Watch
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