Avrea Blog

Every way to cache in GitHub Actions: actions/cache, setup actions, Docker layers, tool caches, and faster backends, with YAML for each.

Avrea builds a software bill of materials for every repository you connect: dependencies, licenses, and the commit each one describes.

Why GitHub Actions builds are slow, and what actually fixes it: cache hits, concurrency groups, matrix sharding, and when faster runners pay off.

SAML SSO is available with Avrea Enterprise. Put CI/CD access behind Okta, Entra ID, or any SAML 2.0 identity provider, with just-in-time provisioning, verified domains, and enforced sign-in.

Avrea gives your GitHub Actions jobs one static public IP, so you can allow-list CI access without running your own runner fleet.

The three fastest x64 runners sit within about 1% of each other on CPU benchmarks. The decisive gap is cache: with a colocated cache, warm builds beat GitHub's cold times by 5x to more than 140x.

Avrea's per-repository egress firewall plus per-run statistics make data and secret exfiltration much harder, and give you a record of exactly where every build connected.

Hosted, self-hosted, or third-party GitHub Actions runners? A practical breakdown of the tradeoffs, real costs, and how to choose, written for engineers.

avr is Avrea's command-line client. Triage a failing run, watch it live, SSH onto the running VM, manage cache and workflows, all without leaving the terminal.

Avrea now supports GitHub Actions workloads on macOS and ARM Linux powered by the latest M5 Max Apple Silicon. Less money for much more performance.

Avrea is SOC 2 Type II attested. Security has been part of the platform from day one, not something added later. Learn what the attestation covers and what it means for teams building with Avrea.

Introducing Avrea and our funding round as we build CI/CD for AI-native software development, helping teams ship faster, more often, and with higher quality.

On GitHub Actions, a 1 GB actions/cache restore takes 14 seconds. On Avrea, the same workflow, same client: 2.9 seconds. Up to 6× faster across cache sizes from 1 KB to 1 GB, with 3× tighter variance.

Early 2026, Avrea received its ISO 27001:2022 certification. Here's what that means for the infrastructure that runs your CI.

On GitHub Actions, a Linux kernel build takes 27 minutes 23 seconds. On Avrea, the same build, with the same two vCPUs: 9 minutes 3 seconds, 24 seconds with a warm cache.

10m 27s on GitHub Actions. 3m 33s on Avrea without cache. 23 seconds with a warm Nix binary cache. That's 2.9x from the hardware, 27x once caching kicks in.

3m 23s on GitHub Actions. 1m 23s on Avrea without cache. 1.4 seconds with a warm Turborepo cache. That's 2.4x from the hardware, 142x once caching kicks in.

21m 40s on GitHub Actions. 10m 48s on Avrea without cache. 1m 52s with a warm sccache. That's 2x from the hardware, 11.5x once caching kicks in.

5m 44s on GitHub Actions. 2m 10s on Avrea without cache. 52 seconds with Gradle's remote cache. That's 2.6x from the hardware, 6.6x once caching kicks in.

37m 10s on GitHub Actions. 14m 4s on Avrea without cache. 56 seconds with cache. That's 2.6x from the hardware, 39.7x once caching kicks in.