| 26 Dec 2025 |
 dish [Fox/It/She] | of course theres always a better option, but considering the limitations and benefits of using GHA at the moment... 🤷♀️ | 15:53:16 |
| dish [Fox/It/She] | just my thoughts to be clear, not trying to speak for anyone else | 15:56:51 |
 emily | GHA is already load-bearing for many more things than ofborg | 16:10:13 |
| emily | we already have migration pain there if we wanted to stop using it, might as well benefit from it | 16:10:43 |
 Janne | That would be great | 16:19:33 |
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 mynacol | For non-foundation use you can always just throw https://github.com/Defelo/nixpkgs-review-gha at a PR and also run nixos tests, just like with local nixpkgs-review. If individuals use it, this should be very much fine for Github, but is not feasible for running automatically on PRs by the NixOS org (except they get enterprise plan sponsored, I hear). | 22:32:33 |
 gabyx | ah nice: but not sure I quite understand that tool, this repo is a GHA setup which runs nixpkgs-review.
So you can trigger this repo's action (how?) and it will pull the PR, and build the attribute on all platforms? | 22:38:36 |
| mynacol | Read the readme :). It explains how you can run it. And just try it.
I found it a month ago and think it's ingenious. | 22:43:32 |
| gabyx | Jeah I probably got the answer. | 22:43:52 |
| gabyx | Its certainly good, also ingenious would be: a local tool which runs on qemu VMs, such that you dont need to debug stupid GHA yaml etc... | 22:50:11 |
| 27 Dec 2025 |
 Arian | We at work have a pretty neat self-hosted gha cluster that spawns up isolated NixOS vms for each job in seconds. But it is AWS based so it'll cost money :').
But for us it's a major money saver. We undercut GitHub enterprise pricing massively and we get fancy servers that are actually ... Fast | 12:27:49 |
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| 28 Dec 2025 |
| gabyx | Any body has a similar setup with Gitlab Runners? | 15:13:03 |
 hexa | that will end you up in docker | 15:26:26 |
| hexa | don't think gitlab supports anything else | 15:26:32 |
| hexa | but yeah, you can have autoscaling groups iirc | 15:26:52 |
| gabyx | Shell executors, but jeah you are right. | 15:26:55 |
| gabyx | How do you spawn nixos vms, whats the mechanics here, is it the GHA runner which can do that? Or what ingredients is needed to make that work? kubernetes no right> that would end you up in containers as well? | 15:28:47 |
| Arian | Listen to GitHub webhooks and then do ec2:RunInstances call | 17:29:58 |
| Arian | That spawns a nixos VM with gha runner | 17:30:24 |
 Vladimír Čunát | self-hosted GitLab certainly allows to have other stuff, probably via the shell executor. We have LXC that way. | 18:38:36 |
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