I'm Surya and I'm super excited to announce WarpBuild's new capabilities.<p>WarpBuild provides drop-in replacements for Github hosted runners that are faster and cheaper.<p>WarpBuild got its first customers from our launch on HN last year and I'm excited to show our newest offering: WarpBuild managed Github actions runners on your AWS account that are up to 90% cheaper than Github-hosted runners.<p>In the last couple of months, we released a ton of new capabilities to speed up your workflows and save on costs like:
(1) BYOC: run Github actions in your AWS account, in ~5 mins.
(2) Managed unlimited Github caches.
(3) Static IPs for allowlisting.
(4) Flexible runner and disk configurations.
(5) Spot instances, arm64 and x86-64 runners.<p>This has been a top ask from our users, and this is even cheaper than self-hosting on k8s using `actions-runner-controller`, while significantly improving job queuing times. We are rather unique in the breadth and depth of the product we offer.<p>This is another capability that we think moves the ecosystem forward, including `action-debugger` via ssh, fast MacOS (M2 Pro) runners, CI analytics dashboards and more.<p>We are making CI faster and cheaper for everyone. What are your biggest pain points with CI, and more broadly the release process? I'd love to learn more.
I've been a user since the early days and loved the immediacy of responses to all our issues. Issues were fixed nearly instantaneously. It's very impressive.<p>Yet to explore the new capabilities!
I'd love to see some more detailed write-up on how to switch to Warpbuild for different tech stacks. I tried a few months ago when the instructions were basically just to change the runs-on type but IIRC it failed with an error around setting up ruby (and caching it?) and there were no clear instructions on how to proceed.
Are the MacOS runners cheaper than Github? Unless things changed, I seem to remember that you get billed for a minimum of a 24 hour period per instance even if you only have a MacOS instance active for 30 minutes.