Any advice on getting pipeline tests to run on cod...
# dev-environmentsj
James Fellows Yates
09/05/2025, 10:36 AMAny advice on getting pipeline tests to run on codespaces, given their nodes are much smaller resource wise 🙃
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Julian Flesch
09/05/2025, 11:51 AMThere should be a way to get more beefy machines for codespaces, although I have not tried it yet: https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/setting-up-your-project-for-codespaces/configu[…]ainers/setting-a-minimum-specification-for-codespace-machines
But I think those instances then are not free.
Julian Flesch
09/05/2025, 11:53 AMWe could of course also take and run the new image somewhere else
Julian Flesch
09/05/2025, 12:20 PMJust checked, there is a 4CPU 16GB RAM "machine type" available in the free tier (bu you will of course go twice as fast through your free CPU minutes per month 😅)
If you go to: github.com/codespaces you can change the machine type for a running instance or create a new one with more fine-grained options. If this works, we could add this as a default to our devcontainer config 👍
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Julian Flesch
09/05/2025, 12:27 PMnextflow run nf-core/mag -profile singularity,test --outdir test-mag-outj
James Fellows Yates
09/05/2025, 12:28 PMOooooh perfect! Thank you!
James Fellows Yates
09/05/2025, 12:29 PMI'll try that another time! (I switched to using a cluster instead in the meantime!)
James Fellows Yates
09/05/2025, 12:35 PMI guess it would make sense to set this to the devcontainer, as then it would match what we used to have with gitpod... what does others think?
Butt yeah, burning through the free CPU minutes sounds scary...
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Julian Flesch
09/05/2025, 12:50 PMThat is a lot though, here it says 120hrs per month: https://docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/github-codespaces#free-and-billed-use-by-personal-accounts
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James Fellows Yates
09/05/2025, 12:52 PMTrue
James Fellows Yates
09/05/2025, 12:52 PMLet's see 😬