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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

Runners and runner groups

At the organization and enterprise levels, access to runners is organized in runner groups. The association from workflow to runner is done by labels – but runner groups control what runners a workflow has access to.

Getting ready…

Please note that in free organizations, there is only one runner group, called Default, that you can use to add self-hosted runners. To create multiple runner groups or use them for GitHub-hosted runners, you will need a paid Team or Enterprise plan.

How to do it…

  1. In an organization with a paid plan, navigate to Settings | Actions | Runner groups (/settings/actions/runner-groups) and click New group.

    Give the group a name. Under Repository access, change the selection from All repositories to Selected repositories and click the gear icon to select one or multiple repositories that will have access to the group (see Figure 4.15). Note that you can allow access to public repositories here but that...

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