Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Save more on your purchases now! discount-offer-chevron-icon
Savings automatically calculated. No voucher code required.
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
GitHub Actions Cookbook

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

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835468944
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Concepts
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Michael Kaufmann Michael Kaufmann
Author Profile Icon Michael Kaufmann
Michael Kaufmann
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: GitHub Actions Workflows 2. Chapter 2: Authoring and Debugging Workflows FREE CHAPTER 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...
lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime