Shipfox provides high-performance, cost-effective compute runners that seamlessly integrate with GitHub Actions workflows. This service delivers build times up to two times faster while reducing CI costs by 50%. Users gain enhanced visibility and debugging tools to quickly identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in their continuous integration processes.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Teams using GitHub Actions for continuous integration (CI) can face challenges related to build time, operational costs, and debugging CI failures. GitHub-hosted runners can be expensive, and identifying the root causes of pipeline failures can be time-consuming.
Solution
Shipfox provides managed runners for GitHub Actions that reduce CI costs and accelerate build times. By changing a single line of code, users can switch to Shipfox runners and benefit from optimized cloud infrastructure and unlimited concurrency. Shipfox also offers CI visibility tools to track pipeline performance, identify flaky tests, and simplify troubleshooting with detailed execution insights and network traffic analysis.
Target Audience
Shipfox targets software development teams using GitHub Actions who want to reduce CI costs, accelerate build times, and improve pipeline reliability.
Features
- Managed runners for GitHub Actions that are 2x cheaper than GitHub-hosted runners
- High-performance machines optimized for CI tasks, with x64 and ARM support
- Support for custom Docker images and preloaded binaries
- CI visibility tools for tracking failure rate, flakiness, and duration
- Ability to drill down from the CI pipeline to the test case level
- Network-isolated and ephemeral VMs for enhanced security
- Single Sign-On (SSO) and granular permissions for access control