Self-hosted runners do not survive a GitHub Actions outage — they wait for an orchestrator that is gone. Here is the fallback control plane we built, the commands we run during an outage, and the hidden dependencies that tie a self-hosted pipeline back to GitHub.
Keep CI Running When GitHub Is Down
Self-hosted runners do not survive a GitHub Actions outage — they wait for an orchestrator that is gone. Here is the fallback control plane we built, the commands we run during an outage, and the hidden dependencies that tie a self-hosted pipeline back to GitHub.