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132. GitHub Action Runners on AWS

Published 2024-10-04 - Listen on your favourite podcast player

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.

  1. Cloudonaut - Self-Hosted GitHub Runners on AWS
  2. AWS: Best Practices for Working with Self-Hosted GitHub Action Runners at Scale on AWS
  3. GitHub - philips-labs/terraform-aws-github-runner
  4. GitHub - garysassano/cdktf-aws-codebuild-github-runners-organization
  5. GitHub - machulav/ec2-github-runner
  6. AWS CodeBuild Managed Self-Hosted GitHub Action Runners
  7. HyperEnv - Self-hosted GitHub runners on AWS
  8. RunsOn - Self-hosted runners on AWS
  9. Actions Runner Controller for Kubernetes
  10. Biome
  11. SLIC Watch

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