Hands-on GitHub Actions: Implement CI/CD with GitHub Action Workflows for Your Applications

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C. Chandrasekara, P. HerathHands-on GitHub Actionshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6464-5_6

6. Using Self-Hosted Runners

Chaminda Chandrasekara¹   and Pushpa Herath²

(1)

Dedigamuwa, Sri Lanka

(2)

Hanguranketha, Sri Lanka

 

GitHub provides hosted runners, or in other words, Windows, Linux, and macOS machines, as workflow runners. Hosted runner information can be found at https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/tree/main/images. A VM runner–supported software list is specified in the readme.md file in each repo folder.

You may have specific software needs to build and deploy your applications. You may want to deploy to an on-premises environment utilizing ...