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GitHub Actions Cookbook
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GitHub Actions Cookbook

by Michael Kaufmann
April 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
250 pages
5h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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4

The Workflow Runtime

In this chapter, you will learn about the different runtime options for GitHub Actions. You will learn how to use different GitHub-hosted runners and how to set up self-hosted runners.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Setting up a self-hosted runner
  • Auto-scaling self-hosted runners
  • Scaling self-hosted runners with Kubernetes using Actions Runner Controller (ARC)
  • Runners and runner groups
  • GitHub-hosted runners
  • Setting up a large runner
  • Managing and auto-scaling ephemeral runners
  • Security for GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners

Technical requirements

For this chapter, you will need Docker and Visual Studio Code, though alternatively, you can use GitHub Codespaces. For the Scaling self-hosted runners with ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781835468944Supplemental Content