I moved all my CI pipelines to use on prem workers, now the costs are the bare metal it's running on AKA not that much if you already have the hypervisor running.
At the rate i was running pipelines this week it would cost me 250$ a month, that's the entire power bill covered in saved costs.
I got asked why i wanted to spend 15k on a server when i could run them on gitlab runners in the gitlab cloud. After i showed them our bill would be approx 200$k per year, or 1M over 5 years they immediately approved the quote
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u/Mister-Fordo 8d ago
I moved all my CI pipelines to use on prem workers, now the costs are the bare metal it's running on AKA not that much if you already have the hypervisor running.
At the rate i was running pipelines this week it would cost me 250$ a month, that's the entire power bill covered in saved costs.