[HN Gopher] Run Gitlab pipelines 2x faster and 5x cheaper withou...
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Run Gitlab pipelines 2x faster and 5x cheaper without changes in
.gitlab-ci.yml
Author : NikPuashkin
Score : 12 points
Date : 2023-11-05 14:02 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| NikPuashkin wrote:
| We're happy to announce a new SaaS on puzl.cloud. It lets you
| focus on your CI/CD workflows while we handle your GitLab runners
| and pipeline jobs. We call this approach Zero Idle because you
| pay only for actual CPU and memory consumption, not for
| allocation.
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| This is the #1 way in the world of running pipeline jobs in terms
| of cost/performance. It beats everything from AWS, GCP, and Azure
| to GitLab.com SaaS runners, since they all are built on
| traditional cloud instances. If you don't use GitLab yet, you
| should consider it just to be able to boost your operations with
| puzl.cloud :)
| NikPuashkin wrote:
| Forgot to say: everyone's welcome to our community Discord
| server, which we opened a few days ago. There's anything about
| devops, Kubernetes, GPUs and cloud computing in general.
|
| https://discord.com/invite/wt8GzF8aG4
| pinkgolem wrote:
| I actually thought about building the same thing today, iops is
| slow & the CPU is outdate in GitHub actions & scaling it up is
| quit expensive.
| NikPuashkin wrote:
| Yep, GitHub is the next in our roadmap. A bit more tricky to
| scale it, so we decided to start with GitLab, first.
| 20thr wrote:
| You can use namespace.so today which provides the best
| performance for Github actions in the market.
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| With the added capability of cache volumes: high-performance
| zero-cost cross invocation caching.
|
| Built by a team of ex-Googlers and ex-Digital Ocean.
|
| Disclaimer: i'm founder and ceo (happy to answer any
| questions!)
| suryao wrote:
| This is fantastic - we do something similar for Github actions
| with WarpBuild.
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| There's just so much time and compute wasted otherwise.
| NikPuashkin wrote:
| Thank you for the feedback! Yeah, we're in the same niche: slow
| and costly pipelines are annoying.
| aetherspawn wrote:
| We provide CI CD services from a small data center we run, but
| the problem that we typically have is that cloud runners are:
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| 1. Too cost effective to sustain a business competing against it
| (cloud) in terms of price
|
| 2. Too critical to business for us to cut costs by simplifying
| hardware requirements/cutting down redundancies (power and
| network)
|
| I find the direction of your business fascinating because not
| only are you promising higher performance service (our main
| selling point is that we buy HW that cloud providers won't buy..
| like low core count high clock speed[1]) but you are promising to
| run the business on a fraction of the revenue.
|
| We encourage our customers with pricing perks and deals to _buy
| more_ than they need, because we need the consistently high
| revenue even if they don't use their service to keep the doors
| open and the hardware up to date. Surely you would need a HUGE
| scale to run this company profitably.
|
| Are you hosting your runners in the cloud at a loss ATM? We
| should connect.
|
| [1]: we can build SW in 6 minutes vs 20 minutes on an EC2 large
| with no IOPS bottleneck. Cloud is actually generally pretty slow.
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