https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-actions/Selfhosted GitHub Actions will become paywalled in 3 months.Your CI/CD pipeline that runs on your own selfhosted hardware will become a paid feature thanks to M$.Now anons, will you switch to Forgejo Actions? Will you selfhost your own git forge?
>>107571842 (OP)>>107571842 (OP)>GitHub ActionsWhat are those? I just post code that's all I use github for.
torvalds save us!oh, i don't even know what a github action is.
I think that's just a mistake on the website. and they meant to write "will apply to Github-hosted runner usage"
>>107572068it's the shit that runs tests and builds. oh, an it is vibe coded by cow dung worshipers.yknow what, kinda sus how zig jumped ship even before this came to light.
>>107572100Orange Reddit confirms it's not a mistake. Microsoft is going to charge you for code executed on your own hardware.
>>107572068Automated workflows that will run when an event triggers them.We have a workflows that automatically build a staging environment on our local development servers every time someone push a commit on the dev branch.It was always paid when the workflow was running on GitHub own servers, now Microsoft wants to paywall workflow execution even on our own selfhosted servers.>>107572100The screenshot you see in the OP is the actual email sent by GitHub.
What do these services solve that a makefile or any other script cannot?
When you are using github actions using your own runners, there is still quite a lot of control, management, and orchestration logic running on the github side. Charging a nonzero fee for that is not unreasonable.
Github was never meant to be used by the general public. Its real customer base are businesses, and if you can't afford to be hosted on Github then fuck off with your little project.
>>107572227it provides endless kekshttps://github.com/actions/runner/issues/3792#issuecomment-3182746514
>>107572262the more i read the worse it gets>>107572248you can just use a local password manager to generate the one-time keys. wouldn't trust it with anything else, mind you.
>>107572262>error is ultimately doing != when you should have done <wow I thought everyone knew to prefer the latter just in caseinteresting how some of these programming bugs are not really related to the actual task at hand or programming language but just failures to apply these broad principles
>>107571842 (OP)Someone has to pay the AI bills, anon.Expect more nickel and diming policy changes from weird places to come soon since the companies already know that youre locked in on other products or cannot shift a business in a reasonable time frame given a bunch of sticky points and a desire for managers to constantly push shit through without any care for tech debt.There's probably businesses running on spreadsheet and email handoffs that would get absolutely rekt by Google deciding to charge $.02 an email and $1 per day per user per spreadsheet accessed as a means to offset Gemini costs.
>>107572427interesting
>>107571842 (OP)Test
>>107572188>Microsoft is going to charge you for code executed on your own hardware.I swear, if their hubris is going to get anymore explicit it is going to grow corporeal to be able to literally stab you in the back with a knife.
>>107572262 SECONDS=0 while [[ $SECONDS != $1 ]]; do : done the fuck is this
SECONDS=0 while [[ $SECONDS != $1 ]]; do : done
>>107572419the error is actually inventing a square sleep (when simultaneously depending on a magic bash variable)
What will it take for Devops "Engineers" to realize githooks exist?
>>107572227A makefile will only build. Actions are part of CI/CD which will automate everything according to your workflows.>>107572234>there is still quite a lot of control, management, and orchestration logic running on the github side.We were already eyeing Forgejo and Forgejo Actions. Now with this news it's guaranteed that we will switch our git forge in the near future.>Charging a nonzero fee for that is not unreasonable.Yet it's not that expensive compared to the amount of code hosted for free with all of those public and private repositories.Builds were already happening on our own servers via their runners. This is straight up nickel and diming.>>107572427Thank god we received this with a 3 month notice. Pretty reasonable for us, we are a small team and we already have experience with selfhosted runners, selfhosting a git forge shouldn't be that hard right?
>>107571842 (OP)Why not terraform?
>>107571842 (OP)Are you telling me that retards using github get what they asked for?
>>107572505A spinlock written in shell. According to MS engineers, aka Copilot, that's the best solution to a generic 'wait for N seconds' in shell for build scripts.
>2026 >github
>>107572729>A makefile will only build. Actions are part of CI/CD which will automate everything according to your workflows.makefiles can do anything bash scripts can do. zillions of projects have a make test target.
>>107571842 (OP)Azure DevOps has NO limits on git LFS storage and costs $15 per extra (one is free) self-hosted CI/CD parallel job with unlimited minutesyet you still suck github dick
>>107573352>makefiles can do anything bash scripts can doand workflows include triggers to decide when to run those makefiles or bash scripts (or however you want to implement the steps), and make it easier to restrict permissions
But seriously though, how is it justifiable to charge people for using their own machines?
Github shadow-banned me for my email address and I didn't notice for a while that my posts could not be seen. Github could just not let you create accounts with email address providers they don't like. But shadow-banning is funnier I guess. Github is not a serious company.
>>107573596>THIS MS service is better than THAT MS service
>>107572159My IT dep got word of this weeks ago from the slimy guy at Github Enterprise sales. I'm sure those guys also get the same sales calls.
>>107571842 (OP)Don't like it? Make your own GitHub.
>>107572502>anon slowly starts to understand why a country with over a billion people was still trapped in the stone age for thousands of years after everyone else moved on.heirarchical caste based societies are incapable of doing anything right. jeets are a bioweapon and the government should make it legal to hunt them down and kill them.
Why care about some blubs showing up on github when you're already self hosted
>>107571842 (OP)OHh, this is for private repos.That makes sense because you need to give your CC details for a private repo, but for a public repo it's fine.How does this stack up to azure pipelines?I was thinking about using it purely for C++ symbol server/indexing.
>>107575491>abloobloo i cant screech about trannies from a hitler.rocks emailgood riddance
>>107572188This tells me Microshaft doesn’t have anymore good ideas and they’re cannabalizing their own prodocts. Bearish
>>107571842 (OP)micro$oft also charges per user/device accessing a windows serveron top of the windows 11 loicense that the user needs
>>107572236Kind of yes and no. It was good that open sores could host there, but recently, github became rapid$h4r3 for anything, including normie and vermin stuff.>>107573596Not even Ms themselves care about as devops. 204 was all about git, and all their materials are about migrating out of devops. I think it's even on a feature freeze too
>>107571842 (OP)>>107571842 (OP)That's your problem if you use a closed source tool like GitHub, even if it's self-hosted, there's certain code designed to make you pay for it. If it's self-hosted like Gitlab or Gitea, that's a different story.
>>107572236Kek, microsoft employees inverting the entire history. No problem. I won’t be the only one
>>107571842 (OP)wew ladand our company had just moved on to github actions. Can't see the economy guys accepting that shit
>>107571842 (OP)if you're using your own machine you are one vibecoded script away from not needing github actions
>>107572068fpbp
>>107576356and office
>>107576195>azure>This is how it always starts. First a top tier, then the whole product.>They have no reason to monetize our offering.>Don't worry, they'll find one.tick tock microcucks
>>107576740>$0.002 per minuteAny company would eat that cost
>>107571842 (OP)>doesn't host their own online git because lol retarded and shit>microsoftcringe
>>107579328what's your solution to scrapers?
>>107579336a firewall
>>107579406elaborate
>>107571842 (OP)Wtf? I love Microsoft now. I hate CI/CD it's something that the user should run on his machine not in some remote (cloud) machine.
>>107571842 (OP)>Go public so our AI can scrape your repoor >Stay private and pay us money
>>107575641>>107576505>>107579328We will switch to Forgejo and Forgejo Actions in January.>>107578786The point of this thread was that a previously free feature will go paid, this is not a new feature, we are using selfhosted runners right now.>>107579336I've personally looked into this and will probably opt for Go-Away: https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-awayIt has templates ready for Forgejo usage.
Nothing they offer isn't something that's produceable locally or with a cron job. The "github actions" are just using the built in hooks feature of git anyway. Corpos will pay for it anyway because majority of their devs probably think this shit is magic and needs "the cloud" to function. Any component team could replace it in less than a day if needed for cost cutting.
>>107576195You do not need to give your credit card for private repos, they are free.>>107579463CI/CD is already running on our machines (our company servers) with selfhosted runners, they will require us to pay for executing builds on our own servers.We didn't use their cloud runners because they costs money and the setup was the exact same.
>>107572159>kinda sus how zig jumped ship even before this came to light.zig pulled out because of safe_sleep.sh fiasco and the overall shitty state of github
>>107579806>safe_sleepazure devops has agentless jobs which don't spend resourceswe use them for approvals, for instance (the next stage waits until someone approves, but this does NOT mean a vm/agent are actually waiting idle reserving resources)also fuck the new captcha, I mean what in the beelzebub's name is this shit
>>107572262This is so embarrassing I'm amazed the thread isn't deleted
>>107572547Reading the fucking manual of git. So many people thing github IS git.
>>107572068They're just pipelines with triggers. I didn't know any serious business used these, I always assumed it was quickly slapped together to offer some pseudo-ci/cd for fizzbuzzers or indians.
>>107571842 (OP)Literally have some code that watch for a repo update and then run a script.
>>107571842 (OP)>subscription fees for personal computingthe fucking kikes
>>107576275We got a regular Nostradamus, here.
>>107583621>microsoft >personal computing
Mozilla recently moved to github, enjoy your donations going to Microsoft AND being served AI slop in the process.
>>107572262>IBMAnother heap of cow dung, the Jews finally got their revenge on Big Blue.
>>107583770Everybody's moving to Ladybird as soon as it's done, which is apparently not going to take super long.
>>107572188all managed orchestration layers use resources even when the customer has self-hosted agents
>>107571842 (OP)https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/github_charge_dev_own_hardware/"Following publication of our original article, GitHub reversed its decision. The Microsoft-owned developer site has taken to X to admit it might have made a mistake by unilaterally announcing plans to charge people for using their own hardware to host runners."
>>107571842 (OP)Yaas! Woke is back!Lmao
Who is gonna pay this? Every place I worked kept all CI/CD and repos on their own stuff (through cloud services, but still).
>>107585939OP here, thanks for the news.They didn't even bother to write another email clarifying this.Still our team will switch away from GitHub and use Forgejo and Forgejo Actions instead, we can't trust them anymore.>“We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach.”So they will proceed to nickel and dime anyway, just with a different strategy.>>107586188GitHub reversed its decision for now but I'm sure their internal teams saw the numbers and thought that the number of businesses using selfhosted runners is high enough to justify charging for this feature without losing many customers.
>>107586387>ForgejoBuy an ad
>>107586387>Forgejo and Forgejo ActionsA yet another scripting language to learn and memorize with it's own quirks. Yeah no.Can't we use similar keywords and syntax for tools that do same?
>>107571842 (OP)you're not a paying customer freenigger, you never paid anything because you cant afford it
>>107589894From what I saw it does looks the same as GitHub Actions and uses the same YAML file specification, which is pretty standard nowadays.
>>107571842 (OP)so the choices will be :>paying a big corp and remaining straight>using the free solution with the furry tranny mascot>
>>107590437You've never gotten even a whiff of pussy in your entire life, what do you know about being straight, fatso?
>>107572505They call it safe sleep. But it's neither safe, nor does it sleep.
https://x.com/jaredpalmer/status/2001373329811181846>We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions. The 39% price reduction for hosted runners will continue as planned (on January 1)>We missed the opportunity to gather feedback from the community ahead of this move. That's a huge L. We'll learn and do better in the future.nothingburger
>>107585001>An alpha release is planned in 2026,[3][4] beta release is expected in 2027, and a stable release for general public in 2028just two more years
>>107576275Microsoft crossed the jeet threshold this month with jeets now surpassing the 50% mark of product managers at the company. Don't expect much of value to come out of the company.
>>107591499>postponingMicrosoft is still planning on charging for GitHub Actions, they will just use a different approach at a later date.>>107591512So, the future is bright.
that's like saying I'm gonna charge you for your own car which stands in your own garage because we made the car
>>107582583We were talking about moving to them from Jenkins at my last job.
WannaCry 2.0 can't come soon enough. Just shred your threir datacenters already.
