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• Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Apr 2025

  Github Actions Runner code is pretty easy to read, here's a specific place that define default arguments for popular shells / binaries: https://github.com/actions/runner/blob/main/src/Runner.Worke..., it is exported through a method ScriptHandlerHelpers.GetScriptArgumentsFormat.

  In ScriptHandler.cs there's all the code for preparing process environment, arguments, etc. but specifically here's actual code to start the process:

  https://github.com/actions/runner/blob/main/src/Runner.Worke...

  Overall I was positively surprised at simplicity of this code. It's very procedural, it handles a ton of edge cases, but it seems to be easy to understand and debug.

• The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
  39 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Mar 2025

  - If you use a CI system, gitlab, circle etc, use one which does not do stupid things with your containers (like Github: 4 years! old f** up: https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/863#issuecomment-25...)

  Thats why we built our own build tool which does that, or at least helps us doing the above things:

  https://github.com/sdsc-ordes/quitsh

• I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jan 2025

  I realky wish they supported yaml anchors. That woukd resove one of the gripes, which I share.

  https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/1182

• Auto Deploy Laravel with Deployer.yml sample With Github Runner
  1 project | dev.to | 3 Dec 2024

  $ curl -o actions-runner-linux-x64-2.320.0.tar.gz -L https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v2.320.0/actions-runner-linux-x64-2.320.0.tar.gz

• Self-Hosted GitHub Actions Runner in Kubernetes
  2 projects | dev.to | 11 Nov 2024

  FROM debian:bookworm-slim ARG RUNNER_VERSION="2.302.1" ENV GITHUB_PERSONAL_TOKEN "" ENV GITHUB_OWNER "" ENV GITHUB_REPOSITORY "" # Install Docker RUN apt-get update && \ apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg RUN install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings RUN curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg RUN chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg # Add Docker repository RUN echo \ "deb [arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)" signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian \ "$(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME")" stable" | \ tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null RUN apt-get update # Install required packages RUN apt-get install -y docker-ce-cli sudo jq # Setup github user RUN useradd -m github && \ usermod -aG sudo github && \ echo "%sudo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" >> /etc/sudoers # Create directories with correct permissions RUN mkdir -p /actions-runner && \ chown -R github:github /actions-runner && \ mkdir -p /work && \ chown -R github:github /work USER github WORKDIR /actions-runner # Download and install runner RUN curl -Ls https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v${RUNNER_VERSION}/actions-runner-linux-x64-${RUNNER_VERSION}.tar.gz -o actions-runner.tar.gz && \ tar xzf actions-runner.tar.gz && \ rm actions-runner.tar.gz && \ sudo ./bin/installdependencies.sh COPY --chown=github:github entrypoint.sh /actions-runner/entrypoint.sh RUN sudo chmod u+x /actions-runner/entrypoint.sh ENTRYPOINT ["/actions-runner/entrypoint.sh"]

• GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runner Setup Guide for Ubuntu
  2 projects | dev.to | 23 Oct 2024

  #!/bin/bash # Check if both arguments are provided if [ "$#" -ne 2 ]; then echo "Missing arguments. Usage: $0 " exit 1 fi repo_to_add_runner=$1 github_token=$2 # Create a folder mkdir actions-runner && cd actions-runner # Download the latest runner package curl -o actions-runner-linux-x64-2.313.0.tar.gz -L https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v2.313.0/actions-runner-linux-x64-2.313.0.tar.gz # Optional: Validate the hash # echo "5697e222e71c4 actions-runner-linux-x64-2.313.0.tar.gz" | shasum -a 256 -c # Create directory to extract the tar mkdir runner-files && cd runner-files # Extract the installer tar xzf ../actions-runner-linux-x64-2.313.0.tar.gz # Create GitHub runner registration token to be used in config.sh input curl -L -X POST -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" -H "Authorization: Bearer $github_token" -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" https://api.github.com/repos/chefgs/$repo_to_add_runner/actions/runners/registration-token | jq .token --raw-output > token.txt repo_token=$(cat token.txt) # Create the runner and start the configuration experience ./config.sh --unattended --url https://github.com/chefgs/$repo_to_add_runner --token $repo_token # Config.sh installs the service files. # So as a last step, setup runner service & run it! ./svc.sh install && ./svc.sh start # Otherwise, If you want to run the runner interactively, you can run ./run.sh # Clean up if [ ! -z token.txt ]; then rm token.txt fi

• Adding the CI/CD config for deployment to a dedicated server using GitHub Actions
  3 projects | dev.to | 26 Aug 2024
• 20-line PR to add key Docker feature to GitHub Actions, please upvote
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Apr 2024
• Why the fuck are we templating YAML? (2019)
  27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2024

  In the case of GitHub Actions, it's made more painful by the lack of support for YAML anchors, which provide a bare minimum of composability.

  https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/1182

• please dont state this as a "workaround". your version simply "pretends" it is a tty when infact it is not an actual tty
  1 project | /r/programmingcirclejerk | 5 Dec 2023
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