GitHub Actions Benchmark

Mastodon

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub where users can follow friends and discover new ones. On Mastodon, users can publish anything they want: links, pictures, text, video. All Mastodon servers are interoperable as a federated network.

This is a multi-architecture benchmark, it built an Intel (linux/amd64) and Arm (linux/arm64) image.

With depot build, the past 10 runs were

6.7x faster

saving a total of

2h 29m 47s

compared to docker build.

About the benchmark

For every commit to mastodon/mastodon, GitHub Actions runs one workflow job building the project with the docker/build-push-action action and caching enabled and one workflow job building the project with depot build. The time each job takes is recorded and visualized here.

Last 10 GitHub Actions Runs

Wrapstodon modal with new share button (#37109)

3 hours ago

Fix color contrast issues caused by new theme tokens (#37105)

Remove duplicate `set_locale` around action in auth/registrations (#36455)

Fix creation of duplicate conversations (#37108)

Display Wrapstodon inline widget (#37106)

Remove noreferrer from external links (#37107)

Fix serialization of annual reports with share code (#37104)

Fix serialization of 2025 wrapstodon reports (#37103)

Update DefinitelyTyped types (non-major) (#37073)

9 hours ago

Depot

2m 19s / 13.3x faster

Docker

30m 54s

Add shareable wrapstodon links (#37047)

Docker Workflow

jobs:
benchmark-docker:
name: Build with Docker
runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v2
- uses: docker/setup-qemu-action@v2
- uses: docker/build-push-action@v2
with:
tags: depot/benchmark-mastodon:benchmark
platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64

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Depot Workflow

jobs:
benchmark-depot:
name: Build with Depot
runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- uses: depot/setup-action@v1
- uses: depot/build-push-action@v1
with:
tags: depot/benchmark-mastodon:benchmark
platforms: linux/amd64,linux/arm64

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