Question

Your team's GitHub Actions workflow must build and test firmware that requires specialized hardware and a proprietary compiler that cannot be installed on GitHub's standard cloud infrastructure. The team still wants to trigger this build automatically on every push using GitHub Actions. What is the most appropriate way to run these jobs?

Accepted Answer

Configure a self-hosted runner on a machine with the required hardware and compiler, and target it in the workflow

Answer

Use GitHub-hosted runners with a larger virtual machine size to accommodate the compiler

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Move the workflow to GitHub Codespaces so the build runs in a dev container

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Replace GitHub Actions with a scheduled cron job in the github.dev editor