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Run GitHub Actions on Azure Standard_D8s_v5

Azure Standard_D8s_v5 — 8 vCPU, 32 GiB RAM, x86_64. Cirun spins one up per workflow on your Azure account and tears it down when the job finishes — you pay Azure for the compute, nothing per CI minute.

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Why this fits

8 vCPU and 32 GiB RAM — sized for workloads the default GitHub-hosted runners can't comfortably host, all on your own Azure account.
General-purpose CI on Azure.
Ephemeral by default — each job gets a clean VM, no leaked state from previous PRs.

.cirun.yml

1runners:
2  - name: azure-standard-d8s-v5
3    cloud: azure
4    instance_type: Standard_D8s_v5
5    # Azure image reference is Publisher:Offer:SKU:Version (string-colon
6    # form) or an explicit map. Canonical's Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the
7    # standard choice.
8    machine_image: Canonical:0001-com-ubuntu-server-jammy:22_04-lts-gen2:latest
9    labels:
10      - cirun-azure-standard-d8s-v5

Drop this in your repo root. The first workflow that requests the runner label spins this configuration up on your cloud account.

More runners on Azure

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16 vCPU · 64 GiB

Azure Standard_F8s_v2

8 vCPU · 16 GiB

Azure Standard_D8ps_v5

8 vCPU · 32 GiB

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Sources · verified 2026-05-25