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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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