132. GitHub Action Runners on AWS
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132. GitHub Action Runners on AWS

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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