At least three situations that come to mind without even trying to think at all(*), after just skimming the readme:
- When you don't use GitHub or GitLab.
- When you use GitHub or GitLab, but you don't have write permissions to use the repository (e.g. because you don't own it).
- When you just want to deploy a VM image or a container (either one instance, or multiple instances), and be able to shut them down, but don't want to bother updating the repository pipeline references every time. Maybe the image/container is actually a FreeBSD jail created from a ZFS snapshot, with a repository hosted in a NAS.
Note: I won't use this project so I'm not trying to justify its existence or usefulness. For all I know, it's just someone's pet project that the author only intends to use themselves, but someone else submitted to HN.
(* EDIT: On retrospect this actually comes off as negative, but I meant this as in "my reasons might not even be all that good" due to me not being that interested in the first place, and not as a judgement or anything like that. Leaving it as-is for transparency.)
- When you don't use GitHub or GitLab.
- When you use GitHub or GitLab, but you don't have write permissions to use the repository (e.g. because you don't own it).
- When you just want to deploy a VM image or a container (either one instance, or multiple instances), and be able to shut them down, but don't want to bother updating the repository pipeline references every time. Maybe the image/container is actually a FreeBSD jail created from a ZFS snapshot, with a repository hosted in a NAS.
Note: I won't use this project so I'm not trying to justify its existence or usefulness. For all I know, it's just someone's pet project that the author only intends to use themselves, but someone else submitted to HN.
(* EDIT: On retrospect this actually comes off as negative, but I meant this as in "my reasons might not even be all that good" due to me not being that interested in the first place, and not as a judgement or anything like that. Leaving it as-is for transparency.)