5 CI/CD Resources Worth Your Time (Week of Oct 10, 2026)
GitHub Actions Billing Update (March 2026) — Private repos now incur a $0.002/min platform fee in addition to compute costs. Public repos remain unlimited free. Critical for budgeting.
🔗 https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-github-actions/about-billing-for-github-actionsCircleCI OSS Credit Boost — Open source projects now get up to 400,000 credits/month on the Free plan (Linux only), up from 30,000. Makes CircleCI genuinely free for most OSS work.
🔗 https://circleci.com/docs/guides/plans-pricing/credits/#open-source-credit-usageBuildkite Kubernetes Agent Autoscaling — Buildkite agents can now autoscale on Kubernetes using the official controller. Pay only for active build time while retaining BYOC flexibility.
🔗 https://buildkite.com/docs/agent/v3/kubernetes-autoscalingGitHub Actions vs Buildkite: Feature-by-Feature Comparison — Buildkite's detailed breakdown covering pricing model, self-hosted runners, security, compliance, and when each wins.
🔗 https://buildkite.com/resources/comparison/buildkite-vs-github-actions/Self-Hosted Runners Cost Analysis — Deep dive on running GitHub Actions self-hosted runners on AWS EC2 Spot instances. Real numbers: ~$0.0006/min vs $0.006/min hosted. 90% savings for steady workloads.
🔗 https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/managing-self-hosted-runners/about-self-hosted-runners
Full deep dive on CI/CD Pipelines (Issue #4):
📖 https://maadhesh.substack.com/p/issue-4
📝 https://dev.to/maadhesh_d14697cfa10adfab/issue-4-cicd-pipelines-the-2026-landscape-27i
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