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The latest news, tutorials, case-studies, and announcements.

Grab your lab coat - we're building a microVM from a container
No more broken tutorials, build a microVM from a container, boot it, access the Internet
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September 5, 2023
How to develop a great CLI with Go
Alex shares his insights from building half a dozen popular Go CLIs. Which can you apply to your projects?
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August 22, 2023
How Calyptia fixed its Arm builds whilst saving money
Learn how Calyptia fixed its failing Arm builds for open-source Fluent Bit and accelerated our commercial development by adopting Actuated and bare-metal runners.
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August 11, 2023
Update your AMD hosts now to mitigate the Zenbleed exploit
Learn how to update the microcode on your AMD CPU to avoid the Zenbleed exploit.
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July 31, 2023
Automate Packer Images with QEMU and Actuated
Learn how to automate Packer images using QEMU and nested virtualisation through actuated.
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July 25, 2023
Understand your usage of GitHub Actions
Learn how you or your team is using GitHub Actions across your personal account or organisation.
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June 16, 2023
Secure CI for GitLab with Firecracker microVMs
Learn how actuated for GitLab CI can help you secure your CI/CD pipelines with Firecracker.
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June 16, 2023
Faster Nix builds with GitHub Actions and actuated
Speed up your Nix project builds on GitHub Actions with runners powered by Firecracker.
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June 12, 2023
Fixing the cache latency for self-hosted GitHub Actions
The cache for GitHub Actions can speed up CI/CD pipelines. But what about when it slows you down?
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May 24, 2023
Keyless deployment to OpenFaaS with OIDC and GitHub Actions
We're announcing a new OIDC proxy for OpenFaaS for keyless deployments from GitHub Actions.
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Alex Ellis
May 5, 2023
Lessons learned managing GitHub Actions and Firecracker
Alex shares lessons from building a managed service for GitHub Actions with Firecracker.
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Alex Ellis
March 31, 2023
How to split up multi-arch Docker builds to run natively
QEMU is a convenient way to publish containers for multiple architectures, but it can be incredibly slow. Native is much faster.
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Alex Ellis
March 24, 2023
Bring Your Own Metal Case Study with GitHub Actions
See how BYO bare-metal made a 6 hour GitHub Actions build complete 25x faster.
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Alex Ellis
March 10, 2023
How to run KVM guests in your GitHub Actions
From building cloud images, to running NixOS tests and the android emulator, we look at how and why you'd want to run a VM in GitHub Actions.
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Han Verstraete
February 17, 2023
Make your builds run faster with Caching for GitHub Actions
Learn how we made a Golang project build 4x faster using GitHub's built-in caching mechanism.
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Han Verstraete
February 10, 2023
The efficient way to publish multi-arch containers from GitHub Actions
Learn how to publish container images for both Arm and Intel machines from GitHub Actions.
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Alex Ellis
February 1, 2023
How to add a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) to your containers with GitHub Actions
Learn how to add a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) to your containers with GitHub Actions in a few easy steps.
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Alex Ellis
January 25, 2023
Is the GitHub Actions self-hosted runner safe for Open Source?
GitHub warns against using self-hosted Actions runners for public repositories - but why? And are there alternatives?
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Alex Ellis
January 20, 2023
How to make GitHub Actions 22x faster with bare-metal Arm
GitHub doesn't provide hosted Arm runners, so how can you use native Arm runners safely & securely?
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Alex Ellis
January 17, 2023
Blazing fast CI with MicroVMs
I saw an opportunity to fix self-hosted runners for GitHub Actions. Actuated is now in pilot and aims to solve most if not all of the friction.
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Alex Ellis
November 10, 2022