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act_runner

This Ansible role installs and configures a gitea Act Runner for executing GitHub Actions-compatible workflows.

Installation

ansible-galaxy install volker-raschek.act_runner

Usage

Simple Playbook

- hosts: runners
  become: yes
  roles:
    - role: volker-raschek.act_runner
      vars:
        act_runner_gitea_url: "https://your-gitea-instance.com"
        act_runner_token: "your-registration-token"

Advanced Configuration

- hosts: runners
  become: yes
  roles:
    - role: volker-raschek.act_runner
      vars:
        act_runner_gitea_url: "https://your-gitea-instance.com"
        act_runner_token: "your-registration-token"
        act_runner_config:
          runner:
            capacity: 2
            labels:
              - "ubuntu-latest:docker://docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-latest"
              - "custom-label:docker://custom-image:latest"
          container:
            privileged: true

Further ansible roles

This ansible role is used in combination with other ansible roles of volker-raschek. You can search for the other ansible roles via the following command.

$ ansible-galaxy role search --author "volker-raschek"

Found roles matching your search:

 Name                      Description
 ----                      -----------
 volker-raschek.bind9      Role to install and configure bind9 on different distributions
 volker-raschek.dhcpd      Role to install and configure dhcpd on different distributions
 volker-raschek.renovate   Role to configure renovate as container image
 ...

Parameters

Act Runner

Name Description Value
act_runner_config_file Path to the act_runner configuration file /etc/act_runner/config.yaml
act_runner_config.log.level The level of logging, can be trace, debug, info, warn, error, fatal info
act_runner_config.runner.file Where to store the registration result .runner
act_runner_config.runner.capacity Execute how many tasks concurrently at the same time 1
act_runner_config.runner.envs Extra environment variables to run jobs {}
act_runner_config.runner.env_file Extra environment variables to run jobs from a file .env
act_runner_config.runner.timeout The timeout for a job to be finished 3h
act_runner_config.runner.shutdown_timeout The timeout for the runner to wait for running jobs to finish when shutting down 0s
act_runner_config.runner.insecure Whether skip verifying the TLS certificate of the gitea instance false
act_runner_config.runner.fetch_timeout The timeout for fetching the job from the gitea instance 5s
act_runner_config.runner.fetch_interval The interval for fetching the job from the gitea instance 2s
act_runner_config.runner.github_mirror The mirror address of the github that pulls the action repository ""
act_runner_config.runner.labels The labels of a runner are used to determine which jobs the runner can run ["ubuntu-latest:docker://docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-latest","ubuntu-22.04:docker://docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-22.04","ubuntu-20.04:docker://docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-20.04"]
act_runner_config.cache.enabled Enable cache server to use actions/cache true
act_runner_config.cache.dir The directory to store the cache data ""
act_runner_config.cache.host The host of the cache server ""
act_runner_config.cache.port The port of the cache server 0
act_runner_config.cache.external_server The external cache server URL ""
act_runner_config.container.network Specifies the network to which the container will connect ""
act_runner_config.container.privileged Whether to use privileged mode when launching task containers false
act_runner_config.container.options Other options to be used when the container is started nil
act_runner_config.container.workdir_parent The parent directory of a job's working directory nil
act_runner_config.container.valid_volumes Volumes that can be mounted to containers []
act_runner_config.container.docker_host Overrides the docker client host with the specified one ""
act_runner_config.container.force_pull Pull docker image(s) even if already present true
act_runner_config.container.force_rebuild Rebuild docker image(s) even if already present false
act_runner_config.container.require_docker Always require a reachable docker daemon false
act_runner_config.container.docker_timeout Timeout to wait for the docker daemon to be reachable 0s
act_runner_config.host.workdir_parent The parent directory of a job's working directory nil
act_runner_gitea_url The URL of the gitea instance ""
act_runner_token The registration token for the act_runner ""