actuated

Faster, fully isolated GitHub Actions 🔥

[actuated @selfactuated]

Scaling ARM builds with Actuated by @CalyptiaInc (now @chronosphereio)

#githubactions #arm #qemu #cicd #slsa
https://t.co/A10kV4QBfv

[Alex Ellis @alexellisuk]

Here's 👨‍🔬 @selfactuated running a GitHub Actions build in Firecracker on:

- t1.medium VM - AWS EC2
- Hetzner Cloud VM
- Google Cloud VM

[Jonas Scholz @JonasScholz19]

@alexellisuk @selfactuated Congrats! I hope it was less than 1.8 million :D

[Alex Ellis @alexellisuk]

We're now actuated dot com!

I look back over the two years since our pilot of GitHub Actions in ephemeral microVMs with @selfactuated

#firecracker #microvm #security #supplychain #cicd
https://t.co/tAN6wqorQQ

[Alex Ellis @alexellisuk]

After working with early GitLab CI customers we've shipped a new release of Actuated for GitLab - run your CI jobs securely in microVMs with very little management

#gitlabci #microvms #firecracker #supplychain
https://t.co/thjjPsUVxx

[Dave Neary @[email protected] @nearyd]

If you didn't watch it at the time, have a look at how
@AmpereComputing, @equinixmetal, and @selfactuated are helping @CloudNativeFdn projects do secure, native Arm64 builds on Ampere servers: https://t.co/IhSgajqj5C

[Alex Ellis @alexellisuk]

@Jasstkn @selfactuated 2/2

You also have arkade as a reference

https://t.co/TBID5tDjsF

[Alex Ellis @alexellisuk]

On Running Millions of Arm CI Minutes for the CNCF

Thanks to @CloudNativeFdn @opentelemetry @containerd @ciliumproject @falco_org @AmpereComputing and others 📈
https://t.co/o45VBzwdLS

[Alex Ellis @alexellisuk]

I found a fun button in Chrome that installed the Actuated Dashboard as a "native app" on MacOS.

[Alex Ellis @alexellisuk]

I sent out some swag to customers and wanted to see what they were like for myself. This is the Gildan hoodie from @Printful

They're great value for one-off orders, including global shipping. https://t.co/H4XB5vMhxT

[Alex Ellis @alexellisuk]

@swade1987 @esotericmeans @laurentsenta @selfactuated Very likely, we've seen builds that took 6 hours before choking passing in 3-5 minutes, consistently.

Thanks for the mention.

https://t.co/1jwkXiIGEy

[Alex Ellis @alexellisuk]

Run - explore and create AI models with @ollama and GitHub Actions - accelerated with a GPU with @selfactuated

#ai #ml #llama2 #cicd #e2etesting
https://t.co/lkjfwBsHce

[Alex Ellis @alexellisuk]

Using @selfactuated I ran the UNIX documentary from YouTube into @OpenAI's medium-sized Whisper model with 3 different GPUs.

Nvidia 3080: 2m14s
Nvidia 3060: 3m35
Nvidia A100 40GB: 4m5s

I guess $$$ isn't always better 🤔

[Lorenzo Fontana @fntlnz]

@alexellisuk @selfactuated @OpenAI @openmetal_io I imagine your room full of desktop PCs and GPUs you built when I see these tweets .

interesting numbers btw, didn't imagine that

[Alex Ellis @alexellisuk]

Ran an SSH debug session with @selfactuated and asked llama2 why GPUs might be needed in CI, and what gaps we're leaving when we omit testing

The answer from 13b was much better than I've seen with self-hosted models in the past

What other models should we be testing?

[birds are not real @brothernifty]

@alexellisuk @ollama @selfactuated @nvidia alex are you

training an LLM model via e2e test runs in ci/cd (github actions)?

[Alex Ellis @alexellisuk]

@confusedqubit @ollama @selfactuated @nvidia Have a read of the blog for the technical details.

https://t.co/hGwoiVKbus

[Alex Ellis @alexellisuk]

Inspired by conversations with @dneary about the Kepler project we’ve started monitoring the power of the Ampere servers used for CNCF Arm builds.

[Alex Ellis @alexellisuk]

Here's @ollama running e2e in GitHub Actions, with a dedicated GPU mounted into a microvM using @selfactuated

Example YAML below, and the responses from the model on an @nvidia 3060

https://t.co/aDSBKneJQl

[Alex Ellis @alexellisuk]

I'll be in Paris from Tuesday evening for KubeCon, feel free to reach out if you'd like to meet - or to talk about microVMs, actuated, openfaas, inlets, etc. ☕🥖🇫🇷👋

[Alex Ellis @alexellisuk]

An interesting pattern of Arm GitHub Actions jobs from @falco_org seen on the @selfactuated flightdeck this morning - is someone iterating on a PR, or is there a pending eBPF announcement for KubeCon?