I left GitHub for self-hosted Forgejo on a hardened NUC. The reason is digital sovereignty, not reliability outages. Here's the thinking and the architecture.
Its just a script that reaches out to my old mac mini that does the build in a VM. New VM each time. It was good enough for my purposes. The windows runner for Xamarin worked without issues in .net with windows runners. So just two physical boxes I would spin up on the fly. I thought it was more but that was it. I stopped using it a while back and just use linux for builds now since thats mostly my day job. I stopped doing other env work a bit ago.
I recall there was a way…
But its coming up blank. Im at work so ill try looking it up. It mifht be a custom thing i set up years ago…or just an old intel mac with tools setup.
With some effort woodpecker is available. But yeah i wws spoiled on semi free builds. And circle ci builds back in the day.
I build with woodpecker, but you still don’t get hosted macOS and windoesnt runners, do you?
OK I found out after I got home for lunch.
Its just a script that reaches out to my old mac mini that does the build in a VM. New VM each time. It was good enough for my purposes. The windows runner for Xamarin worked without issues in .net with windows runners. So just two physical boxes I would spin up on the fly. I thought it was more but that was it. I stopped using it a while back and just use linux for builds now since thats mostly my day job. I stopped doing other env work a bit ago.
Hope that helps!
don’t mac/ios runners require an actual mac/ios device ?
I don’t do apple stuff so i’m not sure.
I recall there was a way… But its coming up blank. Im at work so ill try looking it up. It mifht be a custom thing i set up years ago…or just an old intel mac with tools setup.