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relatedly, I've needed to set up CI and a binary artifact cache recently for a team (with private code hosted on uni github enterprise without actions), and it's quite the landscape

most "CI" services/frameworks seem to be handling a variety of - integration with code forges for e.g. merge gates - environment setup - task runner - status reporting

we use nix, which solves setup and task orchestrator, meaning something like jenkins is massive overkill. there's buildbot-nix but it doesn't seem to integrate into random github enterprise instances... ...in the end I had glm write a several hundred line python script to handle everything

the builders, cache, and ci service are running in microvms a desktop pc with credentials handled by agenix and it's super straightforward

ideally this would run on some cloud service instead of a random pc for reliability, but vps prices are slightly ridiculous and "I just want to spin up a build vm occasionally without bankrupting myself" is a _very_ daunting task