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Comment by theamk

7 days ago

meh, I dunno.

Using bare-metal requires competent Unix admins, and Actions team is full of javascript clowns (see: decision to use dashes in environment variable; lack of any sort of shell quoting support in templates; keeping logs next to binaries in self-hosted runners). Perhaps they would be better off using infra someone else maintains.

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godelski  7 days ago 

  > requires competent Unix admins

Who knows where a $3.7T company is ever going to find competent Unix admins...

  > Perhaps they would be better off using infra someone else maintains.

They're handing it from themselves to themselves. We're talking about Microsoft, not some startup.

dijit  7 days ago

> Using bare-metal requires competent Unix admins

So does running VMs in a cloud provider.

Except now we call them "DevOps" or "SRE" and pay them 1.5-2x.

(as a former SRE myself, I'm not complaining).