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As a Gitlab user that's not strongly committed to the platform, this looks like a pretty interesting option.

Anyone have thoughts on how this compares to e.g. Google Cloud Builder in terms of functionality? Being integrated into the GH backend seems like a big perk, rather than having to use webhooks for everything.

Seems like you can do things like build your Docker containers (https://developer.github.com/actions/creating-github-actions...).

One thing that's great about Gitlab is the Gitlab server/runner split, where you can run workers in your own VPC, but still use their hosted offering. This makes it easier to keep your deploy secrets (aka the keys to the kingdom) locked down, as they never leave your cloud provider.



> Google Cloud Builder

It's actually Cloud Build under the covers. Their Actions Library sure beats have to figure out how to write the configs yourself for GCB though.


> It's actually Cloud Build under the covers

Nope, it's actually something based on Azure Pipelines' code (on a different infrastructure)

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1159526215658561536


Ah, that must be a change with the more recent revisions then. The original version was definitely using Cloud Build.


They swapped it post-acquisition. (Google and Github started working together more, MS acquired them, that stopped :P)


It was cloud build, it's now azure pipelines.


GH Actions offers self-hosted agents too, that can be deployed in the VPC


Apparently it’s free if you have self hosted runners (makes sense).


That's going to hurt people like Buildkite (which we love).


I can't seem to find that in the docs, do you have a link to hand? Thanks!




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