Team moves GitHub Actions CI to GARM due to Claude Opus 5.5 surge

To handle a massive surge in continuous integration jobs generated by AI coding agents, a development team moved their GitHub Actions workloads to a rented dedicated server running the GARM virtualization tool. The solution provides a fresh virtual machine for every CI job while capping monthly infrastructure costs at 99 euros. The author reports that median job wait times dropped to three seconds while successfully controlling expenses. Open article →