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Identify scenarios suited for using GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners

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Identify scenarios suited for using GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners

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- [Presenter] So you have some control over those Cloud VMs. GitHub-hosted runners are managed entirely by GitHub. They're free to use. Now, we're not going to get into the mechanics of all the pricing and everything with these runners. They're free to use, you get a certain number of minutes when you're on a GitHub pay plan. When we're using the free tier at GitHub, or even frankly, when you're on a paid plan, stick with open-source repos because the minutes start ticking. Your build minutes and your runner minutes start ticking when you're doing private repos. Again, you want to look in the docs and read the policies for what you're paying for, but I want you to, for exam purposes, to look at it from a high level that GitHub-hosted runners are provided by GitHub. They're limited in terms of, it's conceivable, it's possible, hopefully very unlikely, but nonetheless, conceivable that GitHub might run out of capacity during periods of peak usage, in which case you may find that your…

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