senoff/self-hosted-ci-runner

Stand up self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on one box, provisioned so heavy CI jobs don't OOM or fill the disk (per-runner swap/scratch + reaper). Parameterized; Hetzner reference config included.

DevOps & infrastructureShell

0.7 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 14, 2026.

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About the project

A set of idempotent shell scripts to stand up several self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on a single Linux box, with per-runner swap, separate /scratch, and a reaper so heavy CI jobs don't OOM or fill the disk.

Useful for

Stand up self-hosted runners on a Hetzner VM for a repo or org
Configure per-runner swap and /scratch so heavy builds don't OOM
Provision a shared Postgres with per-run schema isolation for parallel CI tests

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

1 star today.
The repository is 5 days old and already has 22 stars.
Hacker News: “Our GitHub Actions bill kept climbing, so we moved CI to one box” — 30 points, 5 days ago.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 22
Stars in a day: 1
Forks: 2
Issues and pull requests: 0
Watchers: 0
Language: Shell
License: MIT
Created: September 8, 2026
Last push: September 8, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Hacker News discussions

Our GitHub Actions bill kept climbing, so we moved CI to one box30 points, September 8, 2026

Spotted in

September 13, 2026Spotted on Hacker News

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