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Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions

You're reading from   Automating Workflows with GitHub Actions Automate software development workflows and seamlessly deploy your applications using GitHub Actions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560406
Length 216 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1:Introduction and Overview of Technologies Used with GitHub Actions
2. Chapter 1: Learning the Foundations for GitHub Actions FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Deep Diving into GitHub Actions 4. Section 2: Advanced Concepts and Hands-On Exercises to Create Actions
5. Chapter 3: A Closer Look at Workflows 6. Chapter 4: Working with Self-Hosted Runners 7. Chapter 5: Writing Your Own Actions 8. Chapter 6: Marketplace – Finding Existing Actions and Publishing Your Own 9. Section 3: Customizing Existing Actions, Migrations, and the Future of GitHub Actions
10. Chapter 7: Migrations 11. Chapter 8: Contributing to the Community and Finding Help 12. Chapter 9: The Future of GitHub Actions 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring a job that runs on a self-hosted runner

Similarly to GitHub-hosted runners, self-hosted runners use the runs-on key within a workflow file. Therefore, you will use a line like the following one in your .yml file:

runs-on: [self-hosted, macOS, dev-runner] 

Self-hosted runners automatically receive a self-hosted label, as well as a label to indicate the operating system and architecture you selected when you were creating a self-hosted runner on your repository's Settings page. In the previous example, macOS is the label automatically generated for the operating system. An architecture label is not being used in this case. Note how dev-runner, a label created using the ./config.sh script, was also used.

The following example is of a workflow used in Chapter 3, A Closer Look at Workflows, to translate issues and issue comments that were written in a language different from English, and this workflow ran on a GitHub-hosted runner. The following code snippet shows...

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