Can we just stop instead of terminating a finished runner? about ec2-github-runner

[jpalomaki]

Currently, we don't support this, but it may be possible with the EC2 launch templates approach in #65, right @jpalomaki wink

Block device mapping options might help here, yes. But I don't have first hand experience with that, so cannot say for sure. EBS volume attachment might get racy, if there ever were multiple runners (workflows) running at the same time.

@neverchanje Have you tried using https://docs.github.com/en/actions/guides/caching-dependencies-to-speed-up-workflows#using-the-cache-action?

[machulav]

Currently, we don't support this, but it may be possible with the EC2 launch templates approach in #65, right @jpalomaki 😉

[DarrinHidef]

Another motivation for having a suspend/resume option would be that it would prevent any risk of having large numbers of instances build up and stay running (extra fees), if there are bugs in the terminate-instance logic. That possibility has me worrying, because I don't want to have to monitor the instance count and don't want a surprise bill at the end of the month.