Exploring ARC
The rise of Kubernetes has influenced various CI/CD tools to integrate with its powerful orchestration capabilities. The GitHub ARC is an evolution in this direction, enabling users to deploy GitHub Actions runners on Kubernetes clusters.
This offers better scalability and harnesses Kubernetes’ inherent resiliency and management features. Some of the benefits of taking this route are as follows:
- Efficiency: Rather than over-provisioning to handle peak loads, runners can be dynamically scaled, ensuring resources are used efficiently.
- Resiliency: ARC takes advantage of Kubernetes’ self-healing features. If a runner crashes, Kubernetes ensures another is spawned to maintain the desired count.
- Uniformity: You ensure consistency across deployments by defining runner specifications as Kubernetes manifests. It’s clearer to manage, version, and replicate.
- Cost savings: Dynamic scaling means you only use resources when you need them...