Dockerised Self Runner

Apr 08, 24

A self hosted dockerised version of github actions self runner

Self Runner

Self runner is a basic agent using ubuntu 18 arch to run github action build events, The self runner hosted is inspired by Michael Herman and modified to work for repositories and not organisations.

Docker ENV Variables

  • GIT_REPO - Repository to be monitored in github actions
  • ACCESS_TOKEN - Access token for the repository

Usage

Build image with image tag i.e runner-image


> docker build --tag runner-image --no-cache .

Run instance from image

> docker run --detach --env GIT_REPO=https://github.com/johnsoneyo/jmodelmapper  --env ACCESS_TOKEN=AB4QZ6WHUBJNHL47HCBMULTGCOWGO --name runner runner-image

Source

https://github.com/johnsoneyo/self-runner

References