I recently deployed a GitHub Enterprise Server instance on Google Cloud as a test to see how much it would cost to run for one week, and also test out some of the features of GitHub Enterprise. The installation instructions that I used are located here, and walk you through from start to finish on what you’ll need to do in order to get GitHub running on Google Cloud.
What settings did I use on Google Cloud?
I installed GitHub Enterprise v3.8, but the GitHub version shouldn’t matter too much. In Google Cloud, I was in us-central1-c for the VM zone, which might be more expensive depending on the zone you choose. My VM machine type was n1-standard-8, but be warned that Google Cloud warned me that the instance was over utilized and may perform better with more memory. I was the only user that used the GitHub environment during this time, and only created a handful of repositories and images/media that was uploaded to storage.
Costs of Running GitHub Enterprise on Google Cloud
The costs for running GitHub Enterprise Server 3.8 for one week in Google Cloud was $73.32 after discounts and credits ($3.33).
Here is a breakdown of the services that were used during this time, along with discounts and subtotals:
Finally, the detailed cost breakdown gives a summary as to why I was given discounts and credits. You can see that there was a “Sustained use discount” which amounted to $2.75 – I wasn’t sure what this was originally, but after doing more digging I found that a sustained use discount is basically a discount for keeping the VM service up and running consistently for a define period of time in a calendar month. Interesting!
