Prerequisites
Purpose of this documentation to setup self-hosted github action runner and use it for continuous integration and deployment.
- create work directory and give user permissions
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sudo mkdir /devops
sudo chown $USER -R /devops
- Go to work directory
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cd /devops
- Create actions-runner directory
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mkdir actions-runner
cd actions-runner
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Pull actions runner code
While creating this documentation github action runner version was 2.317.0. Kindly note that this version may not be the latest one.
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curl -o actions-runner-linux-x64-2.317.0.tar.gz -L https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v2.317.0/actions-runner-linux-x64-2.317.0.tar.gz
echo "9e883d210df8c6028aff475475a457d380353f9d01877d51cc01a17b2a91161d actions-runner-linux-x64-2.317.0.tar.gz" | shasum -a 256 -c
tar xzf ./actions-runner-linux-x64-2.317.0.tar.gz
rm ./actions-runner-linux-x64-2.317.0.tar.gz
- Configure action runner
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./config.sh --url https://github.com/<organization-name> --token <token>
- Create service file
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sudo touch /etc/systemd/system/github-runner.service
- Add following content to service file
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[Unit]
Description=GitHub Runner
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/devops/actions-runner/run.sh
User=<user-name>
WorkingDirectory=/devops/actions-runner
Restart=always
RestartSec=10
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
- Reload daemon
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sudo systemctl daemon-reload
- Enable service
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sudo systemctl enable github-runner
- Start service
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sudo systemctl start github-runner