brookman64k • 2 months ago

At my project we are forced to use Enterprise GitHub including Actions. Often 80% of the build time consists of up- or downloading intermediate or final build artifacts. This can take more than 40 minutes which is extremely painful. I was really looking forward to finally getting a speedup here. The promise:

> GitHub Actions: Artifacts v4 available in GitHub Enterprise Server #930 … We will be extending support for v4 of the actions to upload and download artifacts to GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES). This new version improves artifact upload and download speeds by up to 98%.

I don‘t understand at all how this is not a priority anymore. :-(

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jmainguy • 2 months ago

I believe the future is GitHub enterprise cloud. https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/ove... all the benefits of GitHub enterprise, with none of the cons

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richbell • 2 months ago

> all the benefits of GitHub enterprise, with none of the con

To some organizations, having to use a cloud SaaS instead of hosting the application on-prem is a con.

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btreecat • 2 months ago

Isn't that the value GitLab is trying to provide?

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richbell • 2 months ago

Perhaps. The point remains that GitHub currently offers a self-hosted solution (GitHub Enteprise Server), and saying that the cloud version is the exact same (no cons) isn't true.

theamk • 2 months ago

Why bother with Github Artifacts at all, especially for intermediate steps?

At our self-hosted GHE instance, we use either (self-hosted) Artifactory, or raw S3. Fast, and easy to work with.