Show HN: SurplusCI – runners for your CI pipelines. More builds, smaller bills
igorzij 2021-08-19 16:14:00 +0000 UTC [ - ]
Super cool! Where does it run the jobs - in my AWS account or on your servers?
igorzij 2021-08-19 16:14:00 +0000 UTC [ - ]
hardwaresofton 2021-08-19 14:12:02 +0000 UTC [ - ]
OP here, I built this so I could save some money running CI builds for my projects on GitHub and GitLab. Generally you can self-host your runners with multipass/vagrant/virtualbox but it was a little tedious for me to do locally and forget about so I built a service with the purpose of setting and forgetting it. I think there's a big gulf between the cost of rented hardware and what these platforms charge so this is my attempt at entering that market a little bit.
Support for on-demand runners is in the works, along with other platforms which support external runners (Bitbucket, Azure pipelines). If you've got some use case (ex. Bazel) that you absolutely need before even considering this service, I'd love to hear about it.
Also, if you know of any F/OSS projects that are suffering from large CI bills, please send them to me (admin@surplusci.com) and I'll chase them down and force them to save some money (assuming I can save them some) -- this project is built on F/OSS and I'd love to pay it forward. Absolutely willing to go above and beyond on discounts for the right project(s) (e.g. magit) -- though obviously there's a limit to my wallet!