gitea_runner

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

Installation

ansible-galaxy install volker-raschek.gitea_runner

Usage

Simple Playbook

- hosts: runners
  become: yes
  roles:
    - role: volker-raschek.gitea_runner
      vars:
        gitea_runner_gitea_url: "https://your-gitea-instance.com"
        gitea_runner_token: "your-registration-token"

Advanced Configuration

- hosts: runners
  become: yes
  roles:
    - role: volker-raschek.gitea_runner
      vars:
        gitea_runner_gitea_url: "https://your-gitea-instance.com"
        gitea_runner_token: "your-registration-token"
        gitea_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
gitea_runner_config_file	Path to the gitea_runner configuration file	/etc/gitea_runner/config.yaml
gitea_runner_config.log.level	The level of logging, can be trace, debug, info, warn, error, fatal	info
gitea_runner_config.runner.file	Where to store the registration result	.runner
gitea_runner_config.runner.capacity	Execute how many tasks concurrently at the same time	1
gitea_runner_config.runner.envs	Extra environment variables to run jobs	{}
gitea_runner_config.runner.env_file	Extra environment variables to run jobs from a file	.env
gitea_runner_config.runner.timeout	The timeout for a job to be finished	3h
gitea_runner_config.runner.shutdown_timeout	The timeout for the runner to wait for running jobs to finish when shutting down	0s
gitea_runner_config.runner.insecure	Whether skip verifying the TLS certificate of the Gitea instance	false
gitea_runner_config.runner.fetch_timeout	The timeout for fetching the job from the Gitea instance	5s
gitea_runner_config.runner.fetch_interval	The interval for fetching the job from the Gitea instance	2s
gitea_runner_config.runner.fetch_interval_max	The maximum interval for fetching the job from the Gitea instance.	5s
gitea_runner_config.runner.workdir_cleanup_age	The maximum interval for fetching the job from the Gitea instance.	24h
gitea_runner_config.runner.idle_cleanup_interval	Cadence for the idle stale bind-workdir cleanup pass.	10m
gitea_runner_config.runner.log_report_interval	The base interval for periodic log flush to the Gitea instance.	5s
gitea_runner_config.runner.log_report_max_latency	The maximum time a log row can wait before being sent.	3s
gitea_runner_config.runner.log_report_batch_size	Flush logs immediately when the buffer reaches this many rows.	100
gitea_runner_config.runner.state_report_interval	The interval for reporting task state (step status, timing) to the Gitea instance.	5s
gitea_runner_config.runner.github_mirror	The mirror address of the github that pulls the action repository	""
gitea_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"]
gitea_runner_config.runner.allocate_pty	TODO	false
gitea_runner_config.cache.enabled	Enable cache server to use actions/cache	true
gitea_runner_config.cache.dir	The directory to store the cache data	""
gitea_runner_config.cache.host	The host of the cache server	""
gitea_runner_config.cache.port	The port of the cache server	0
gitea_runner_config.cache.external_server	The external cache server URL	""
gitea_runner_config.cache.external_secret	Shared secret between this runner and the external gitea-runner cache-server.	""
gitea_runner_config.cache.offline_mode	When true, reuse a cached action instead of fetching from the remote on every job.	false
gitea_runner_config.container.network	Specifies the network to which the container will connect	""
gitea_runner_config.container.privileged	Whether to use privileged mode when launching task containers	false
gitea_runner_config.container.options	Other options to be used when the container is started	nil
gitea_runner_config.container.workdir_parent	The parent directory of a job's working directory	nil
gitea_runner_config.container.valid_volumes	Volumes that can be mounted to containers	[]
gitea_runner_config.container.docker_host	Overrides the docker client host with the specified one	""
gitea_runner_config.container.force_pull	Pull docker image(s) even if already present	true
gitea_runner_config.container.force_rebuild	Rebuild docker image(s) even if already present	false
gitea_runner_config.container.require_docker	Always require a reachable docker daemon	false
gitea_runner_config.container.docker_timeout	Timeout to wait for the docker daemon to be reachable	0s
gitea_runner_config.container.bind_workdir	Bind the workspace to the host filesystem instead of using Docker volumes. This is required for Docker-in-Docker (DinD) setups when jobs use docker compose with bind mounts (e.g., ".:/app"), as volume-based workspaces are not accessible from the DinD daemon's filesystem.	false
gitea_runner_config.host.workdir_parent	The parent directory of a job's working directory	nil
gitea_runner_config.metrics.enabled	Enable exposing metrics at http:///metrics and a liveness check at /healthz.	false
gitea_runner_config.metrics.addr	The address for the metrics HTTP server.	127.0.0.1:9101
gitea_runner_unix_extra_groups	List of additional unix groups to append the executing gitea-runner user to.	[]
gitea_runner_gitea_url	The URL of the Gitea instance	""
gitea_runner_token	The registration token for the gitea_runner	""

Package Management

Name	Description	Value
gitea_runner_update_cache	Whether to update package cache before installing packages	true