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GitHub Actions Cookbook

You're reading from   GitHub Actions Cookbook A practical guide to automating repetitive tasks and streamlining your development process

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835468944
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Kaufmann Michael Kaufmann
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: GitHub Actions Workflows FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 2: Authoring and Debugging Workflows 3. Chapter 3: Building GitHub Actions 4. Chapter 4: The Workflow Runtime 5. Chapter 5: Automate Tasks in GitHub with GitHub Actions 6. Chapter 6: Build and Validate Your Code 7. Chapter 7: Release Your Software with GitHub Actions 8. Index 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

GitHub-hosted runners

In this last recipe of this chapter, we’ll be creating a larger GitHub-hosted runner with network isolation in the runner group.

Getting ready…

You need the runner group you created in the previous recipe in an enterprise or organization with a paid plan!

How to do it…

  1. In the runner group you created, click New runner | New GitHub-hosted runner (see Figure 4.20):
Figure 4.20 – Creating new GitHub-hosted runners

Figure 4.20 – Creating new GitHub-hosted runners

  1. Give the runner a name. The name must be between 1 and 100 characters, and it may only contain uppercase letters (A-Z) and lowercase letters (a-z), numbers (0-9), dots (.), dashes (-), and underscore (_). Pick a Runner image value (Ubuntu or Windows) and the corresponding version (see Figure 4.21):
Figure 4.21 – Configuring the name and image for the runner

Figure 4.21 – Configuring the name and image for the runner

  1. Pick the size of the runner (see Figure 4.22). Note that larger runners...
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