Re: Astronomer.io to sponsor "hardware" for Apache Airflow's CI

[Ash Berlin-Taylor <as...@apache.org>]

I opened a PR against actions/runner to be able to add the security controls we need -- anyone who wants to see shorter Airflow queue times should give this a +1 (as a reaction, not a comment) please :)

https://github.com/actions/runner/pull/783
-ash
On Oct 28 2020, at 4:41 pm, Jarek Potiuk <Ja...@polidea.com> wrote:
> Cool!
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 3:54 PM Ash Berlin-Taylor <ash@apache.org (mailto:ash@apache.org)> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > As I'm sure some of you are aware, our CI is run on Github Actions, and over the last few weeks and months has gotten slower and slower as more Apache projects also start using it (we all share the same queue of workers).
> > One of the ways around this is to provide self-hosted runners, and I'm happy to say that the company I work for, Astronomer.io is happy to "sponsor" Airflow to the tune of almost $5000/year for CI.
> > We need to work out how best to spend this money (it won't be money, but credits in one of the cloud providers), and how to run self-hosted runners securely(so we don't waste those credits - see <https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/about-self-hosted-runners#self-hosted-runner-security-with-public-repositories> (https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/about-self-hosted-runners#self-hosted-runner-security-with-public-repositories). Jarek and I are chatting and working out the options around this.
> > Hopefully soon we should have much quicker CI. Fingers crossed.
> > Ash
>
> --
>
>
> Jarek Potiuk
> Polidea (https://www.polidea.com/) | Principal Software Engineer
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> M: +48 660 796 129 (tel:+48660796129)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>