Alex Ellis

Learn how to publish container images for both Arm and Intel machines from GitHub Actions. In 2017, I wrote an article on multi-stage builds with Docker, and it's now part of the Docker Documentation. In my opinion, multi-arch builds were the proceeding step in the evolution of container images.

Learn how to add a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) to your containers with GitHub Actions in a few easy steps.

GitHub doesn't provide hosted Arm runners, so how can you use native Arm runners safely & securely? GitHub Actions is a modern, fast and efficient way to build and test software, with free runners available. We use the free runners for various open source projects and are generally very pleased with them, after all, who can argue with good enough and free? But one of the main caveats is that GitHub's hosted runners don't yet support the Arm architecture.

Launched a website for actuated - blazing fast self-hosted GitHub Actions with all the upside - speed, privacy, unmetered billing, low maintenance.

Around 6-8 months ago I started exploring MicroVMs out of curiosity. Around the same time, 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.

GitHub Actions reference examples for Docker/K8s/matrix builds as part of the actuated docs.

Learn how we collaborated with our customers to rethink and rebuild the OpenFaaS autoscaler for functions.

When I heard about the Microsoft Dev Kit 2023, I was surprised by how generous the specifications were for the price? Naturally, I wanted to know if I could run Linux on it. You may also wonder. The answer is: kinda.