CircleCI's change to pricing for Docker Layer Caching is a disaster

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2 points·ryanisnan··5 comments

CircleCI recently announced a change to their pricing model for Docker Layer Caching, which, for teams that heavily use Docker and CI/CD, is pretty important.

In my current project, our DLC costs have gone from tens of dollars per month to thousands of dollars per month.

Worse, the configuration language doesn't easily allow for the targeting of branches where DLC should be enabled.

I would guess that as customers start getting their October bills, they are going to be quite choked.

With the introduction of GitHub Actions not to mention the existence of GitLab CICD, is there any reason whatsoever to use any of these third-party CICD services?

Edit: why the downvote?

AFAIK GitHub Actions is just a wrapper on top of Azure Devops. Its pricing might be just as steep as CircleCI. Plus I doubt it supports multi-cloud architectures.

Not sure about GitLab, what's their pricing model?

Assuming its about the SaaS offer: you get an amount of free minutes according to the plan you are in, you can by extra minutes. You also can host the runner yourself, and even do that with the autoscalling (it's the same we use to run the included runners). So you can opt for convenience (paying by minute) or can run your own infrastructure to optimize on cost, if you wish.

The runners are very low maintenance, and theres even a kunernetes helm chart available.

Probably not. But legacy and competing priorities make it harder to just switch away.

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