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CI is challenging and it's **not your fault**. It's a fundamental issue with how the current, traditional CI execution model works. Nx Cloud adopts a new **task-based** CI model that overcomes slowness and unreliability of the current VM-based CI model.

Nx Cloud improves many aspects of the CI/CD process:

- **Speed** - 30% - 70% faster CI (based on reports from our clients)
- **Cost** - 40% - 75% reduction in CI costs (observed on the Nx OSS monorepo)
- **Reliability** - by automatically identifying flaky tasks (e2e tests in particular) and re-running them

## Connect your workspace to Nx Cloud

Run the following command in your Nx workspace (make sure you have it pushed to a remote repository first):

```shell
npx nx connect
```

This connects your workspace to Nx Cloud and enables remote caching and CI features. For more details, [follow our in-depth guide](/docs/guides/nx-cloud/setup-ci) for setting up CI with Nx.

## How Nx Cloud improves CI

In traditional CI models, work is statically assigned to CI machines. This creates inefficiencies that many teams experience at scale.

Nx Cloud uses a **task-based approach to dynamically assign tasks** to agent machines. CI becomes scalable, maintainable, and more reliable because Nx Cloud coordinates work among agent machines automatically and acts on individual tasks directly.

For example:

- An agent machine fails in a setup step — Nx Cloud automatically reassigns the work to other agent machines.
- More work needs to run in CI — add more agent machines, Nx Cloud automatically assigns available work.
- Known flaky tasks waste CI time on needed reruns — Nx Cloud automatically detects flaky tasks and reruns them in the current CI execution.

[Learn how our customers use Nx Cloud](https://nx.dev/blog?filterBy=customer+story) to scale their workspaces and be more efficient.

## Nx Cloud features

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## Learn more

- [Blog post: Reliable CI: A new execution model fixing both flakiness and slowness](https://nx.dev/blog/reliable-ci-a-new-execution-model-fixing-both-flakiness-and-slowness)
- [Live stream: Unlock the secret of fast CI - Hands-on session](https://www.youtube.com/live/rkLKaqLeDa0)
- [YouTube: 10x Faster e2e Tests](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YxcxIR7QU0)