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228 points by kevcampb 10 hours ago | 117 comments
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gophigure 5 hours ago [-]
What I find problematic, especially for teams that rely on GitOps and GitHub being (relatively) stable, is the fact that GitHub's status page can't be relied on. You arrive at the conclusion, "this must be GitHub," but the status page rejects the notion, and so you go digging. That can lead to a lot of toil and wasted time, in addition to sideways looks paired with comments like, "but status shows green."

A sick person with symptoms is clearly sick, but sometimes they're asymptomatic. That's what the GitHub status page has become. When it's red and showing problems, you know you have problems. When it's all green? You know you MIGHT have problems.

That can make outages like this harder to triage, since reality is a black box.

ozyschmozy 2 hours ago [-]
> "this must be GitHub," but the status page rejects the notion, and so you go digging

Don't know about you but at this point I've learned to recognize and ignore GitHub issues even when they haven't admitted to it yet

jeroenhd 4 hours ago [-]
Github is fast in updating their status compared to other companies. Amazon has to be bombed, on fire, and in the news before their status page shows anything about any ongoing issues.

I assume these companies have some kind of uptime guarantee in their contracts, because they seems to care more about covering their asses than about informing customers.

sleepybrett 2 hours ago [-]
No they aren't, we can see outages coming 20+ minutes before GH reports them.

We have outages on our books that they never reported even after we ticketed them.

They cook the stats like an inner city police department.

chanux 2 hours ago [-]
Not fraud from a legal point of view I guess /s
giwook 3 hours ago [-]
Comparing one shitty set of standards to another shitty set of standards… hmm
arccy 4 hours ago [-]
This is why you ignore everything for at least 30 min before starting to investigate...
c0rruptbytes 5 hours ago [-]
I can imagine a lot of people moving to OCI instead of GitOps
stryan 4 hours ago [-]
OCI layering on top of running systems a la bootc? or OCI as the desired state storage for CM?
stackskipton 4 hours ago [-]
SRE here, OCI for storing deployment config information, most of time, Kubernetes manifest files/Helm Charts.
stryan 3 hours ago [-]
Gotcha, that's what I figured but I was still curious. I've got a side-project that was originally designed for traditional GitOps but got OCI support as a feature submission from a user. I've been seeing more usage of the OCI backend these days and originally figured it was a side-effect of the project domain (Podman Quadlets) but maybe it is an over all field shift.
bdsa 3 hours ago [-]
In the last couple of weeks, I've been moving a deployment stack off ArgoCD pointing at Git, and ended up settling on Flux fetching OCI artifacts from ECR. The artifacts are built and pushed by GitHub Actions. It seems like a nice way to "have GitOps" without needing GitHub to be up all the time.
a-squirrel-comm 9 hours ago [-]
It looks like today there was maintenance scheduled to deprecate support for certain categories of SSH keys: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-22-security-improvemen...

> November 4, 2026: We’ll have a brownout of the removal of the ssh-rsa signature type (i.e., RSA keys using SHA-1) and the diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 key exchange algorithm.

I guess something went sideways.

pksunkara 36 minutes ago [-]
If this is truly the cause of the outage, then the incident looks like a result of GitHub's own vibecoding instead of the increase in usage.

Disclaimer: I am building a code forge at https://juju.bi

shawabawa3 2 minutes ago [-]
That's not a disclaimer it's just an ad
igleria 9 hours ago [-]
hey how much do I owe you for this INCREDIBLY important information? This is not sarcasm btw.
a-squirrel-comm 9 hours ago [-]
nothing :) hope they'll release a statement soon, this is was an assumption on my side, it might be totally wrong. I had intermittent issues with basic git pull/push ops locally so I went to dig a bit. ps: if you do have money to spare, consider donating to the EFF (https://www.eff.org) though B)
DanielHB 6 hours ago [-]
hah I was wondering why I was getting invalid key errors from github
igleria 9 hours ago [-]
thanks a bunch! will do.
qtqtqt 9 hours ago [-]
How to check if one's SSH keys are still compatible?
dist-epoch 8 hours ago [-]
if any of your SSH key files are bigger than 500 bytes, you should rotate them
matja 6 hours ago [-]
Even mldsa44-ed25519?
SkiFire13 7 hours ago [-]
Bigger or smaller?
mschuster91 7 hours ago [-]
EC keys should be much smaller... this is only valid for id_rsa SSH keys
anamexis 6 hours ago [-]
That’s the point.
rarisma 9 hours ago [-]

       - - >  i wake up - -
       |                  |
       |                  V
       github has an outage
dodslaser 6 hours ago [-]
Do you fall asleep every time GitHub has an outage? Are you narcoleptic?
shepherdjerred 3 hours ago [-]
You have it wrong. GitHub goes down because they fall sleep
lta 13 minutes ago [-]
It must be Tuesday, that's why
GrantMoyer 5 hours ago [-]
Point of clarification: do you work at GitHub?
Chris2048 5 hours ago [-]
Perhaps they are a process/thread?
binsquare 5 hours ago [-]
A manager might say you need to stop waking up.
gib444 2 hours ago [-]

  def is_github_down(day):
      return day[-1] == "y"
eknkc 10 hours ago [-]
Our deploys are tied to GitHub actions and it is becoming a liability at this point. What alternatives do people use? I mean for FOSS there are some decent stuff but we need a reliable provider for private repos.
Roark66 6 hours ago [-]
This is exactly why I don't understand companies (like some of my clients) that move from self hosted Jenkins to GH Actions.

You're literally replacing a well designed resilient system with a single point of failure run by a different company...

hiccuphippo 4 hours ago [-]
I get to tell my manager it's github's fault.
Chris2048 4 hours ago [-]
> a well designed resilient system

Wait, Jenkins?

iamjake648 54 minutes ago [-]
Like with all things, it really depends on having someone competent stand it up and run it. I think we've already reached the point that this is totally worth it for mid-sized companies as opposed to giving MS money for GHA.
stack_framer 7 hours ago [-]
We use GitLab where I work. The only problem is it calls pull requests "merge requests," and I don't think I'll ever get used to saying "MR" instead of "PR."
jaapz 6 hours ago [-]
Why are all you github people pulling on your requests?

I am requesting to merge my changes into the main branch.

crote 2 hours ago [-]
Because in the good old days when git was still distributed, a merge often started with sending someone an email to obtain your newly-coded commits via `git pull`ing your "gpu-drivers-for-linus" branch from some URL pointing to your personal GitWeb install. In other words: it was a request to pull your code.

Similarly: Why are the Gitlab people so happy to merge? Where is my "Rebase Request", "Squash Request", or "Cherry-pick Request"?

chrisweekly 1 hours ago [-]
good bit of lore.

related tidbit: in git, "pull" is basically shorthand for "fetch + merge".

dutchbart 5 hours ago [-]
Or you are requesting me to pull your changes into my branch.
hhh 7 hours ago [-]
I have the opposite
saturn_vk 9 hours ago [-]
Self-hosted Forgejo with a bunch of runners might also be interesting for you. The workflow syntax is _almost_ identical to the github one.
karolist 5 hours ago [-]
Self hosted Jenkins, been working wonderfully.
maratc 3 hours ago [-]
I use Jenkins too, however any pipeline starts by checkout from github, so it failed this morning just the same.
karolist 3 hours ago [-]
Same for me, ssh access was intermittent, but at least I have reliable local builds when GitHub actions is out but access works. With AI running Jenkins is not that hard. I build large cuda containers so cost alone ruled out hosted builds for my usecase. There's a bit of update churn but nothing broke so far. I ran around 2000 builds last year. I run it on epyc 7v12 128gb ddr4 host.
pelagicAustral 10 hours ago [-]
My deployments are tied to their container registry, so I'm equally screwed... Been thinking of going back to Dokku, I started working on a third wrapper around Dokku (yeah, I've literally done this twice already), and then self-host and self-provision... I honestly thinking seriously about this.
bonetruck 7 hours ago [-]
Forgejo backed by Woodpecker CI running on Kubernetes (Talos) has been amazing! Ditch Github Actions syntax for the simplicity of Woodpecker and containers. You'll thank me later.
paaloeye 6 hours ago [-]
How do you run Docker containers inside your K8S? Let’s say you need a test database or test ClickHouse???
NewJazz 5 hours ago [-]
1 web search later... Top result..

https://woodpecker-ci.org/docs/usage/services

misswaterfairy 10 hours ago [-]
Genuine question: if you're hosting private repos, is self-hosting an option?

Gitea Enterprise would be worth looking at.

https://about.gitea.com/products/gitea-enterprise/

eknkc 9 hours ago [-]
Honestly, not really wanna deal with self hosting it. Would rather pay for a decent service at this point.
import 9 hours ago [-]
There is already a blacksmith sh if you don't want to selfhost your runners. Or codeberg as a full solution if I am not mistaken.
michaelbuckbee 9 hours ago [-]
+1 for Blacksmith. You need to have a Github org to use it as it won't work on personal accounts, but it feels like a magic want that just makes runners 2x as fast.

I have it for all my stuff (dozens of repos and hundreds of PRs/builds per week) and it's only once in the last year that I've exceeded the free resource levels. I don't know if it's just extra capacity or they're burning VC dollars in the hopes of inspiring posts like this, but either way I feel like I'm taking advantage of them at this point.

crote 9 hours ago [-]
Codeberg only allows F/LOSS software, for most companies that's a dealbreaker.
tcfhgj 7 hours ago [-]
Private projects usually are not owned by companies
crote 2 hours ago [-]
Your proprietary personal hobby project doesn't need an entire publicly-accessible Forge, it can just live on your local drive or home server. It is also not critical enough that GitHub occasionally being down is a big deal.

If you're looking for a publicly-accessible Forge SaaS for your private repos and are willing to pay for it, you are almost certainly a company developing proprietary software.

shimms 6 hours ago [-]
Buildkite with self hosted runners
maccard 1 hours ago [-]
Which is 4x the price of github, _plus_ the cost of the runners on top of it.

It's a great service though

delf 7 hours ago [-]
I self-host with GitSocial.

https://gitsocial.org/

SkiFire13 7 hours ago [-]
Some of our deploys use CircleCI instead, but they were still broken because they couldn't checkout from Github.
icy 4 hours ago [-]
We're shipping private repos for Tangled very soon (tangled.org). Shoot me an email anirudh@!
myaccountonhn 9 hours ago [-]
Post receive hook on a bare git repo with gitolite for access control.
rozularen 9 hours ago [-]
self hosted forgejo has been my saviour. im thinking in acquiring a new NUC server to increase compute and storage to my homelab to add some new runners
import 9 hours ago [-]
gitea is amazing.
raddan 9 hours ago [-]
Seconded. Also very easy to set up. I’ve been running it for years, along with webhooks to kick off testing and website deployment jobs. I especially like the swagger browser that generate API calls for you to try in curl. I use the API pretty extensively.
embedding-shape 8 hours ago [-]
You don't even have to migrate off GitHub if you don't want to.

Begin by refactoring the deployments so they're driven by checked in shellscripts, that accepts a git reference to deploy (prefer immutable commit SHAs over mutable branches/tags). Make it use the stuff it already has checked in, and make the actual GitHub Actions stuff as small and concise as possible, ideally each "run" should just call a shellscript with the git reference.

Then move so the deploys happen not on GitHub Actions itself, but on a "intermediate deploy host" that has the source code and access to the credentials you need, and make this host have one secure entrypoint, where someone (or something) can enter and run shellscripts, after pushing their code as a normal git push. Then switch so the deploys from GitHub Actions instead use this new host to do the deploys. Lock down this host hard.

When GitHub and/or GitHub Actions go down, the developer responsible for deploying stuff, should be able to get temporary git and ssh access to this host, can push any git data straight to the host, and their user on this host can run the deploy scripts. Keep in mind that nothing in your deployment process should depend on stuff that isn't also available on this "deploy host", if you have multiple synced repositories and so on.

Now things mostly work the same as people are used to, with the added benefit that when things go down again (like next week), you'll still be able to continue to deploy stuff.

I've done this refactor/migration for tens of companies in the last year, more or less following this exact template for all of them, with no issues reported from either of them, but lots of praise :)

infra_tinker 8 hours ago [-]
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jelder 8 hours ago [-]
Git itself usually works, but we gave up on GHA and use https://www.rwx.com/ for tests, previews, and deployments. It’s 2x to 10x faster than GitHub Actions and testing uncommitted changes on real CI infrastructure is a total game changer.
thesdev 10 hours ago [-]
Finally a GitHub outage during European workday. Yaaay.
nope1000 8 hours ago [-]
Although it is lunchtime :/
y-curious 6 hours ago [-]
Isn’t most of the European workday lunch time? :P

I joke, the QoL is really nice

sognetic 10 hours ago [-]
Can't even pull no more using my key. That's a new low, I'm used to the website being janky nowadays but this is seriously essential
ayhanfuat 10 hours ago [-]
At least they have a very clear error message so you know what is going on.

> git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.

chinathrow 9 hours ago [-]
That's standard git, not coming from GH.
5 hours ago [-]
b1tshift 9 hours ago [-]
Just rolled new keys and though I'm going crazy that it's not working
cashbreaker 9 hours ago [-]
I was thinking I'm going crazy with me ssh keys not working on both of my machines.
techterrier 9 hours ago [-]
https is working still!

git -c credential.helper= -c 'credential.helper=!gh auth git-credential' pull https://github.com/myorg/my-repo.git

swe_dima 9 hours ago [-]
Temporary workaround is to do

git config --global url."https://github.com/".insteadOf git@github.com:

so it pushes / pulls using HTTPS

when things are back to normal run:

git config --global --unset url."https://github.com/".insteadOf

igleria 10 hours ago [-]
Can't they just... sell github back like when the germans sold the nuclear plant back to mr burns?
solyin 10 hours ago [-]
As of 2026-11-04T10:25:34Z the domain MicrosoftPleaseGiveGithubToGoogle.com is still unclaimed.
selectnull 9 hours ago [-]
Yes, really at this point it would be best if MS sold Github to Google and they kill it within a year.
renehsz 5 hours ago [-]
https://GiveUpGithub.org - why and how to ditch GitHub.
marvstazar 9 hours ago [-]
Pretty good timing now that Rails has released a security update :|

https://rubyonrails.org/2026/11/4/Rails-8.0.5.2-and-8.1.4.1-...

gowthamgts12 2 hours ago [-]
they marked incident with Pull requests, Git operations and issues - but i don't see any outage in the bars for today other than pull requests? what's the point of showing uptime there then? https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses is more reliable than the official github status page.

new incident with actions now - https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/h02n9572mx9y.

giwook 3 hours ago [-]
It’s kinda funny that GitHub having issues continues to make HN front page.

Perhaps these types of posts should just be pinned at this point.

colek42 6 hours ago [-]
Why do we need centralized CI? We just need a gate to make sure the code passes the right checks before we move the tip.
falcor84 6 hours ago [-]
Well, at the very least, that gate needs to be centralized in some way, right? Unless ... are you suggesting using a blockchain ledger for that?
nalekberov 6 hours ago [-]
I think blockchain ledger wouldn't be enough, there needs to be AI agents on top of that, that combined with some kind of harness layer, plus, ideally agents gossiping with each other and sometimes fighting with each other to get best results.
icy 4 hours ago [-]
That's the idea behind Tangled's spindles.
nalekberov 6 hours ago [-]
because it's simpler.
fauzanhilmi 10 hours ago [-]
For a moment I thought my ssh key got breached. Fricking hell Github!
feukon 9 hours ago [-]
The day GitHub will no longer be free is approaching... they just can't support the abnormal amount of things being pushed rn
crote 9 hours ago [-]
For most people here GitHub is already a paid platform. Our companies rely on it as a core part of our development workflows, and we pay a decent bunch of money for it. If it was only the free part of GH having issues, it wouldn't get even remotely near this kind of exposure.

Developers are expensive. If I can't ship a feature on time because GitHub issues keeps forcing me to switch to different tasks to work around git/PR/ticket/Actions downtime, then that costs my company real money - despite us not being the source of the AI DDoS that GitHub has happily been welcoming.

To me, the situation is very simple: either 1) rein in the AI deluge, or 2) isolate paying customers from it, or we'll move to an alternative.

For businesses the current state of unreliability would be unacceptable if it was completely free, the fact that it is actually paid just adds insult to injury.

alper 7 hours ago [-]
Same old same old.

What were the 60'000 people exiting Microsoft doing if not improving Github?

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el_psy_congroo 4 hours ago [-]
actions still don't work correctly
taran_narat 6 hours ago [-]
The outage was quite short
sigmonsays 3 hours ago [-]
Github only has issues on days that end in Y!
misnome 9 hours ago [-]
At this point, even when there isn't an incident, push/pull have been so unreliable as to fail about 30% of the time.

I can live with the occasional outage but this is a constant problem.

w3ll_w3ll_w3ll 9 hours ago [-]
I feel there is a problem with your connectivity or with the Github datacenter you are being routed to. That has not been my experience.
esafak 3 hours ago [-]
There are two more incidents:

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xr3myzj7ms51

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/h02n9572mx9y

Get your act together, clowns.

znpy 4 hours ago [-]
I miss working with a self-hosted gitlab instance.
chinathrow 10 hours ago [-]
git clone works sometimes, sometimes not.
9 hours ago [-]
grishka 9 hours ago [-]
I managed to push a commit over ssh but then the client threw an error before the push fully completed. I can see the commit on the web, but my client still thinks it isn't pushed. And now when I try to fetch I get "permission denied" after a long wait, which is scary. I first thought something got hacked.

Maybe they need a better AI model for their vibe coding. That'll fix everything, right? At least that's what my friends keep telling me when I say that the free LLMs I played around with a bit are incredibly dumb.

dude250711 9 hours ago [-]
These days, perhaps, normal undisrupted operation should start counting as an incident...
esher 10 hours ago [-]
Again and again?
anon7000 10 hours ago [-]
That is how explosive demand growth works after all. They just aren’t keeping up with increasing capacity or rate limiting people
crote 9 hours ago [-]
GitHub is down only on days ending in -day.
dankobgd 6 hours ago [-]
too much slop got them
rvz 9 hours ago [-]
Another incident. Last time we had one was 5 days ago [0]

It's up to you if you want more of this instability. Perhaps you should consider a self-hosted alternative.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307843

kitehosting 31 minutes ago [-]
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SlightGenius 3 hours ago [-]
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larsnystrom 9 hours ago [-]
Why haven’t they asked an AI agent to fix all their bugs yet? /s
Ampersander 7 hours ago [-]
Why does anyone even use Github anymore? Just generate a better forge with AI
refactor_master 9 hours ago [-]
Prompting the wrong things is just a skill issue.
fredsted 9 hours ago [-]
Just set up a Gitea instance, pushed my code and switched my deployment script to it. Took 30 minutes. Github pulls still aren't working.
malikolivier 9 hours ago [-]
GitHub outages can be a drain on productivity. If your stack is pulling artifacts from GitHub, and this consistently fails during GitHub outage, you can consider having a file-cache in between.

Some of our customers unexpectedly started using the service we're running as a file-cache around GitHub to mitigate GitHub outages.

We wrote about this use case in our blog: https://www.stablebuild.com/blog/protect-your-builds-from-gi...

jaapz 6 hours ago [-]
Self promotion is generally frowned upon here