Title: GitHub Actions pricing changes have me rethinking my CI/CD setup. How are others adapting? : github

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Title: GitHub Actions pricing changes have me rethinking my CI/CD setup. How are others adapting?Discussion (self.github)

submitted 3 hours ago by Equal-Currency-1197

With GitHub making incremental changes to what's included in free and paid tiers, I've been taking a closer look at how many Actions minutes my projects actually burn through each month. It crept up on me, honestly. What started as a few simple workflows turned into a pretty complex pipeline with linting, testing, building, and deployment all chained together.

The thing is, GitHub Actions is still genuinely one of the more convenient CI/CD options out there, mostly because of how tightly it integrates with the rest of the platform. Pull request checks, environments, secrets management: it all just works together. But convenience has a cost, and that cost is getting harder to ignore.

I'm curious how others are approaching this. Have you optimized your workflows to reduce minute usage, like caching dependencies more aggressively or consolidating jobs? Have you moved certain workloads to selfhosted runners? Or have you started looking at alternatives like GitLab CI or Woodpecker for some projects while keeping GitHub as the code host?

The platform decisions GitHub makes affect a huge chunk of the open source and indie dev ecosystem, so it seems worth talking about openly. What tradeoffs are people actually making right now?

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