GitHub Actions Larger runners – Are now in public beta

Today, we are announcing the public beta of larger GitHub hosted runners for GitHub Actions for Team and Enterprise plans 🎉 🎉

The new larger runners provide new capabilities for Team and Enterprise GitHub Action users:

  • Linux and Windows machines up to 64 cores
  • Fixed IP ranges to provide access to runners via allow list services
  • Admin control over access to larger runners and concurrency

Larger machine sizes

Developers will be able to make use of machine sizes up to 64 cores on demand to run their workflows, billed by the job minute.

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Fixed IP ranges

Setup a fixed IP range for your machines by simply ticking a check box, this provides an IP range that can be allow listed in internal systems and in GitHub’s allow list to keep using Actions while making your GitHub environment more secure.

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Admin control

Admin’s can choose who can have access to larger machine sizes and at what concurrency, providing guard rails on spending
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Larger machine pricing

Larger runners are charged for in both private and public repos and do not consume included minutes.
To learn more about the larger runner per job minute pricing, check out the updated pricing docs

To learn more about using the new larger runners, check out our docs

To see what’s next for Actions, visit our public roadmap

At the organization level, you can now view (GET) and update (PATCH) enablement status as well as configure the setting to automatically enable new repositories for the following GitHub security products:

  • Dependency graph
  • Dependabot alerts
  • Dependabot security updates

If you are a GitHub Advanced Security customer, you can also view and update the same settings for:

  • Secret scanning
  • Push protection

In addition, GitHub Advanced Security customers can view and update the enablement status for GitHub Advanced Security at the organization level.

Learn more about the organization REST API and send us your feedback

Learn more about GitHub Advanced Security

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