Blazing fast GitHub Actionswith fixed costs.
Standard hosted runners are slow and expensive, larger runners cost even more.
Actuated runs on your own infrastructure with flat-rate pricing, low management and secure isolation with Firecracker.
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After one week actuated has been a huge improvement! Even our relatively fast Go build seems to be running 30%+ faster and being able to commit to several repos and only wait 10 minutes instead of an hour has been transformative.
Finally our self-hosted GitHub Actions Runners are on fire 🔥. Thanks to Alex for all the help onboarding our monorepo with NX, Docker, x86 and Arm on bare-metal.
Our worst case build/deploy went down from 1h to 20-30mins, for a repo with 200k lines-of-code.
Increase speed, security and efficiency.
Learn what friction actuated solves and how it compares to other solutions: Read the announcement
- Blazing fast builds & E2E.
With safe access to the fastest hardware available, builds tend to be 2-3x faster.
Our expert team can offer advise on how to save you additional time with caching and local network access.
- Secure CI that feels like hosted.
Every job runs in a clean, isolated microVM, just like a hosted runner.
That means you can run
sudo,insmod, Docker and Kubernetes directly, just like you do during development, there's no need for Docker-in-Docker (DIND), Kaniko or complex user-namespaces.- Arm (Apple Silicon) from Dev to Production.
Are you running Docker with Apple Silicon in an Arm VM, or are deploying to Graviton on AWS?
With actuated, dev and production can now share the same Arm-based Linux build environment without slow emulators like QEMU.
- Instant local caching.
Most self-hosted runners suffer from poor caching speed uploading to Azure's backbone.
Actuated comes with a built-in Docker cache and optional S3 cache for near-instant access.
Lower your costs, and keep them there.
All our plans include unlimited build minutes, just decide how many builds you want to run at the same time. Burst Billing can be enabled to go over your capacity for a short period of time.
In a recent interview, a lead SRE at UK-based scale-up told us that their bill had increased 5x over the past 6 months. They are now paying 5000 GBP / month and we worked out that we could make their builds faster and at least halve their costs.
- Predictable billing.
Most small teams we interviewed were spending at least 1000-1500 USD / mo for GitHub's slowest hosted runners.
That cost would have multiplied with GitHub's "bigger runners". But with actuated the cost is flat-rate, no matter how many minutes you use, or what size builder you need.
- Lower management costs.
Whenever your team has to manage self-hosted runners, or explain non-standard tools like Kaniko to developers, you're losing money.
With actuated, you bring your own servers, install our agent, and we do the rest. Our VM image is built with automation and kept up to date, so you don't have to manage packages.
Get insights into your organisation
When you have more than a few teammates and a dozen repositories, it's near impossible to get insights into patterns of usage.
Inspired by Google Analytics, Actuated contrasts usage for the current period vs the previous period - for the whole organisation, each repository and each developer.
Improve your builds with our tips & tricks
Learn how to improve the speed and efficiency your GitHub Actions with our examples and best practices.
These are the results you've been waiting for
“Our team loves actuated. It gave us a 3x speed increase on a Go repo that we build throughout the day. Alex and team are really responsive, and we're already happy customers of OpenFaaS and Inlets.”
“We just switched from Actions Runtime Controller to Actuated. It only took 30s create 5x isolated VMs, run the jobs and tear them down again inside our on-prem environment (no Docker socket mounting shenanigans)! Pretty impressive stuff.”
“From my time at Mirantis, I learned how slow and unreliable Docker In Docker can be. Compared to GitHub's 16 core runners, actuated is 2-3x faster for us.”
“This is great, perfect for jobs that take forever on normal GitHub runners. I love what Alex is doing here.”
“We needed to build public repos on Arm runners, but QEMU couldn't finish in 6 hours, so we had to turn the build off. Actuated now builds the same code in 4 minutes.”
“We needed to build Arm containers for our customers to deploy to Graviton instances on AWS EC2. Hosted runners with QEMU failed to finish within the 6 hour limit. With actuated it takes 20 minutes - and thanks to Firecracker, each build is safely isolated for our open source repositories.”
“One of our Julia builds was taking 5 hours of compute time to complete, and was costing us over 1500USD / mo. Alex's team got us a 3x improvement on speed and lowered our costs at the same time. Actuated is working great for us.”
Frequently asked questions
“It's cheaper - and less frustrating for your developers — to pay more for better hardware to keep your team on track.
The upfront cost for more CPU power pays off over time. And your developers will thank you.”
Read the article: The hidden costs of waiting on slow build times (GitHub.com)
Ready to go faster?
You can try out actuated on a monthly basis, with no commitment beyond that.
Make your builds faster today