HACKER Q&A
📣 fahhem

How much does CI/CD cost your team/company?


I've been shocked by the costs of cloud compute for CI. I've seen hundreds of VMs used by dozens of engineers at peak.

Are others seeing this in software companies? Or have I seen particularly expensive CI systems?

  👤 suryao Accepted Answer ✓
It is definitely a high-spend area. It is not uncommon for teams that are <50 people to spend ~$2-5000/month on CI, sometimes more.

There are repos we've seen that are heavily sharded for testing and trigger ~50-200 separate jobs per commit, each taking a few minutes to run.

CI costs are only going to increase with each engineer putting out 10x code and autogenerated tests in the next few years.

aside: we're tackling this problem as a company. I've been considering putting out an analysis of this data from our customer set - your post might just trigger me to do it.