Google Cloud instance

Run GitHub Actions on Google Cloud n2-standard-8

Google Cloud n2-standard-8 — 8 vCPU, 32 GiB RAM, x86_64. Cirun spins one up per workflow on your Google Cloud account and tears it down when the job finishes — you pay Google Cloud 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 Google Cloud account.
General-purpose CI on GCP.
Ephemeral by default — each job gets a clean VM, no leaked state from previous PRs.

.cirun.yml

1runners:
2  - name: gcp-n2-standard-8
3    cloud: gcp
4    instance_type: n2-standard-8
5    # Use a GCP image family path or a self-link to a custom image
6    # you've built and shared with Cirun's service account.
7    machine_image: projects/ubuntu-os-cloud/global/images/family/ubuntu-2204-lts
8    labels:
9      - cirun-gcp-n2-standard-8

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

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Sources · verified 2026-05-25