Actuated Blog
The latest news, tutorials, case-studies, and announcements.
How secure are your self-hosted CI runners? We compare running CI jobs on VMs, containers, and Kubernetes versus one-shot, ephemeral microVMs.
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We take a look back to our launch in November 2022, what we've learned since and what's next for actuated.com.
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Learn how microVMs provide more flexibility and security for CI workloads, by removing the need for privileged containers or Docker In Docker.
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We've now run over 1.5 million minutes of CI time for various CNCF projects on Ampere hardware. Here's what we've learned.
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Actuated now offers burst billing and capacity for customers with spiky and unpredictable CI/CD workloads.
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With the new GPU support for actuated, we've been able to run models like llama2 from ollama in CI on consumer and datacenter grade Nvidia cards.
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You can now accelerate GitHub Actions with dedicated GPUs for machine learning and AI use-cases.
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After running almost 400k build minutes for top-tier CNCF projects, we give an update on the sponsored Arm CI program.
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How do you pick the right VM size for your GitHub Actions runners? We wrote a custom tool to help you find out.
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We compare the impact of switching Discourse's GitHub Actions from self-hosted runners and a hosted cache, to a local cache with S3.
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You can now request custom amounts of RAM and vCPU for jobs, run eBPF within jobs, and use KVM acceleration.
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Ampere Computing and The Cloud Native Computing Foundation are sponsoring a pilot of actuated's managed Arm CI for CNCF projects.
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No more broken tutorials, build a microVM from a container, boot it, access the Internet
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Alex shares his insights from building half a dozen popular Go CLIs. Which can you apply to your projects?
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Learn how Calyptia fixed its failing Arm builds for open-source Fluent Bit and accelerated our commercial development by adopting Actuated and bare-metal runners.
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Learn how to automate Packer images using QEMU and nested virtualisation through actuated.
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Learn how you or your team is using GitHub Actions across your personal account or organisation.
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Learn how actuated for GitLab CI can help you secure your CI/CD pipelines with Firecracker.
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The cache for GitHub Actions can speed up CI/CD pipelines. But what about when it slows you down?
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We're announcing a new OIDC proxy for OpenFaaS for keyless deployments from GitHub Actions.
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Alex Ellis
Alex shares lessons from building a managed service for GitHub Actions with Firecracker.
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Alex Ellis
QEMU is a convenient way to publish containers for multiple architectures, but it can be incredibly slow. Native is much faster.
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Alex Ellis
See how BYO bare-metal made a 6 hour GitHub Actions build complete 25x faster.
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Alex Ellis
From building cloud images, to running NixOS tests and the android emulator, we look at how and why you'd want to run a VM in GitHub Actions.
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Han Verstraete
Learn how we made a Golang project build 4x faster using GitHub's built-in caching mechanism.
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Han Verstraete
Learn how to publish container images for both Arm and Intel machines from GitHub Actions.
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Alex Ellis
Learn how to add a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) to your containers with GitHub Actions in a few easy steps.
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Alex Ellis
GitHub warns against using self-hosted Actions runners for public repositories - but why? And are there alternatives?
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Alex Ellis
GitHub doesn't provide hosted Arm runners, so how can you use native Arm runners safely & securely?
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Alex Ellis
I saw an opportunity to fix self-hosted runners for GitHub Actions. Actuated is now in pilot and aims to solve most if not all of the friction.
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Alex Ellis