We've been running our platform for a couple of months now, and overall it's been going good - but one thing we haven't been able to solve is running self-hosted GitHub Action runners with #Docker.
We are running them as a scale group per GitHub repository (we have monorepos so we don't need many) then within that run 1 instance during 'office hours' and scale down to 0 with ad-hoc needs at the evenings and weekends.
Next we looked at adding it to our apt-get in our container image for the runners themselves - but we got a very particular error about the --output argument not being supported, despite it being clear in the docs - well we since found out that this choice offers 7 levels of dependency hell.
Because the GitHub Action runner is currently based on Ubuntu 22.04, the version in it's repo is 1.23.1 - Ubuntu 24.04 has version 1.33.7 (LOL) which supports the --output argument
I also don't like the idea of building from source in an image (would definitely separate to a build pipeline and store a binary in our repo or storage account).
Anyway, we decided to call it a day so I'm here to ask - has anyone else solved this problem, and how? (Thanks in advance) - we really have other things to get on with and this seems like it shouldn't be this hard.
@tanepiper Oh, THAT’S what that means? No freaking way, LinkedIn.
(Context: I recently logged back in to LinkedIn after five years away to do some favours for friends, and then I had to update everything and re-familiarise myself with the thing. I was wondering what verification meant)
Waternet - the Dutch company the manages the water infrastructure and collects the bills of customers like me, is going bankrupt because of failed IT projects.
I heard they used SAFe and went all in on Scrum, and managed to completely balls it up.
Another project to add to the chapter "Why your utility bills are so high" (if I ever get around to it)
They even admit it all here as part of their "digital transformation"
They have no personal achievements or abilities of their own so they fill their emptiness with fake pride with whatever version of supremacy they can grab onto
I did a lightning talk yesterday at #dddEurope and honestly it was pulled together last minute from some random ideas I had - but I've had a couple of people now say they liked it - the photographer at the event said it made things a little more understandable - maybe I'm on to something 🤔 #dddEU
The great thing about conferences is if you ask the right questions you can get pretty unbiased validation that you are doing the right thing and it doesn't have to be in the same business domain, just a similar problem engineering wise that can help solve a business one. #dddEurope#dddconf#dddEu