Ditch Your Expensive CI/CD and Bui
summary
A company replaces an expensive hosted CI/CD with an in‑house setup that uses 20 Mac minis, Ansible for provisioning, Fastlane and GitHub Actions for orchestration. Build times drop from ~42 minutes on the hosted service to about 19 minutes end‑to‑end and often ~15 minutes for the job itself. Upfront hardware and setup cost ~€50k (≈€30k for Macs), then annual run rate falls to ~€10k, and the system supports signing, secrets, third‑party connectors and Datadog monitoring.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00The motivation for change
- 2:01Defining the requirements
- 6:23Architectural breakdown
- 10:05Infrastructure strategy
- 13:39Standardizing build scripts
- 18:03Automating with Ansible
- 25:28Orchestrating with GitHub
- 37:04Performance and results
- 41:47Solving operational hurdles
- 49:20Lessons and wrap-up
- 51:48Q&A session
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