Support for VMs on Apple M1

[pmatos]

Is there any plan to release VMs in Apple M1 hardware to run GitHub Actions?

[thejoebourneidentity]

Hi @pmatos, at this moment we do not have a ETA for enabling M1 support in the GitHub Actions hosted runners, but we are actively evaluating the feasibility of this and will provide updates on our roadmap when we have something to share!

[tomiiide]

@thejoebourneidentity Any update on this yet?

[naikrovek]

It's coming. They're using Anka now for building VMs on developer MacBooks (Anka doesn't work on Mac Mini's without paying). You can see the templates in HCL in this repo.

IMO they should use Tart instead, since it's free and open source. The AGPL-3 license probably means that Microsoft can't use it, though. Microsoft, generally, can't use GPL software of any sort except in very special circumstances. I know that doesn't sound right, but I promise you, they are (for the most part, not completely) allergic to GPL licenses. Only the CirrusLabs folks can say if the AGPL-3 is right for Tart, but if they used MIT or BSD license, I'm sure MS would consider its use. Again, that's a decision for the CirrusLabs folks, and they should use the license they feel is best for them.

[tonyarnold]

Tart has announced that they're changing licenses.

[naikrovek]

Tart has announced that they're changing licenses.

That's good; I don't really like the license they've chosen, given that it's not an open source license, but it's better than AGPLv3, for sure, in some ways.

At that price, though, I might as well just use VMs from AWS or Azure. My whole motivation for chasing a solution involving Tart was to save money in the long term over what AWS and Azure offer.

Hm.

[Siedlerchr]

In the roadmap moved to Q4/2023... So either end of year or at some undefined point in the future...

[fkorotkov]

Hey @naikrovek, one of Tart’s developers here. Just want to elaborate a bit about your concerns on pricing.

Tart itself is free to use on personal workstations and until your organization reaches a certain number of server installations that utilize more than 100 CPU cores combined (running Tart on 12th M1 Mac Minis for your CI is free, for example). And even after reaching the limit, our pricing is very competitive and in our assessment it’s still several times cheaper than AWS or Azure like you mentioned.

We also have a managed service where for $150 a month you can get an M1 powered GitHub Action Runner with no limit on minutes used each month. This pricing is also the best out there. For comparison, $150 is equal to 32 hours of CI workflows on Intel runners.

[diogot]

We give up, just bought a Mac mini M2 and going self hosted.

[sammcj]

Any update on this? All new macs are Apple Silicon, x86 is pretty much dead.

[tarcieri]

As per the roadmap we are targeting some time later this year for GitHub hosted M1 support

From February 2023

[gillbates]

anyone knows how it goes now?

[jpmckinney]

Can the maintainers lock or limit interaction on this issue? It’s just people asking the same question over and over (these comments are being downvoted and deleted). Maybe create and link to a discussion where people can do that, if necessary. I’m subscribed to know when this issue is updated - not to hear folks whine.

[mikhailkoliada]

Adrressed as #8439 and M1 is now available!