GitHub, Github Actions, and the GitHub Container Registry have been how I've been handling builds, but it's been slow, and it's started to seem absurd to have all these builds occurring in some random datacenter presumably on the other side of the Atlantic ocean, that I am then pulling back to a server in Europe.

I started fishing around for a locally hosted replacement, coming across Forgejo, Woodpecker CI, and OneDev in addition to more familiar names like GitLab and SourceHut.

At some point it occurred to me that this was a lot of ceremony for something relatively simple. How hard could it be just to have a git remote and hang some builds off it? I'm not trying to launch my own GitHub here.

Supabase is a collection of backend services (Postgres, PostgREST auth service, S3 storage, function runtime) that you can develop against locally and then deploy to production.

They don't yet provide a fully integrated background job running system. This post shows a detailed example of how you might keep your stack slim and build a system like this for yourself in Supabase, rather than using a third party!