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## Motivation

[GitHub Actions](https://github.com/features/actions) is very useful as a tool for automating development. GitHub Actions job is run in the cloud by default, but you may want to run your jobs in your environment. [Self-hosted runner](https://github.com/actions/runner) can be used for such use cases, but requires the provision of a virtual machine instance and configuration. If you already have a Kubernetes cluster, you'll want to run the self-hosted runner on top of it.
[GitHub Actions](https://github.com/features/actions) is a very useful tool for automating development. GitHub Actions jobs are run in the cloud by default, but you may want to run your jobs in your environment. [Self-hosted runner](https://github.com/actions/runner) can be used for such use cases, but requires the provisioning and configuration of a virtual machine instance. Instead if you already have a Kubernetes cluster, it makes more sense to run the self-hosted runner on top of it.

*actions-runner-controller* makes that possible. Just create a *Runner* resource on your Kubernetes, and it will run and operate the self-hosted runner of the specified repository. Combined with Kubernetes RBAC, you can also build simple Self-hosted runners as a Service.
*actions-runner-controller* makes that possible. Just create a *Runner* resource on your Kubernetes, and it will run and operate the self-hosted runner for the specified repository. Combined with Kubernetes RBAC, you can also build simple Self-hosted runners as a Service.

## Installation

First, install *actions-runner-controller* with a manifest file. This will create a *actions-runner-system* namespace in your Kubernetes and deploy the required resources.
First, install *actions-runner-controller* with a manifest file. This will create *actions-runner-system* namespace in your Kubernetes and deploy the required resources.

```
$ kubectl apply -f https://github.com/summerwind/actions-runner-controller/releases/latest/download/actions-runner-controller.yaml
```

Next, set up a GitHub App or personal access token for *actions-runner-controller* to access the GitHub API.
## Setting up authentication with GitHub API

There are two ways for _actions-runner-controller_ to authenticate with the the GitHub API:

1. Using GitHub App.
2. Using Personal Access Token.

**NOTE: It is extremely important to only follow one of the sections below and not both.**

### Using GitHub App

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--from-file=github_app_private_key=${PRIVATE_KEY_FILE_PATH}
```

### Using personal access token
### Using Personal Access Token

Next, from an account that has `admin` privileges for the repository, create a [personal access token](https://github.com/settings/tokens) with `repo` scope. This token is used to register a self-hosted runner by *actions-runner-controller*.
From an account that has `admin` privileges for the repository, create a [personal access token](https://github.com/settings/tokens) with `repo` scope. This token is used to register a self-hosted runner by *actions-runner-controller*.

To use a Personal Access Token, you must issue the token with an account that has `admin` privileges.

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## Usage

There's generally two ways to use this controller:
There are two ways to use this controller:

- Manage runners one by one with `Runner`
- Manage a set of runners with `RunnerDeployment`
- Manage runners one by one with `Runner`.
- Manage a set of runners with `RunnerDeployment`.

### Runners

To launch a single Self-hosted runner, you need to create a manifest file includes *Runner* resource as follows. This example launches a self-hosted runner with name *example-runner* for the *summerwind/actions-runner-controller* repository.
To launch a single self-hosted runner, you need to create a manifest file includes *Runner* resource as follows. This example launches a self-hosted runner with name *example-runner* for the *summerwind/actions-runner-controller* repository.

```
# runner.yaml
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### RunnerDeployments

There's also `RunnerReplicaSet` and `RunnerDeployment` that corresponds to `ReplicaSet` and `Deployment` but for `Runner`.
There are `RunnerReplicaSet` and `RunnerDeployment` that corresponds to `ReplicaSet` and `Deployment` but for `Runner`.

You usually need only `RunnerDeployment` rather than `RunnerReplicaSet` as the former is for managing the latter.

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runnerdeployment.actions.summerwind.dev/example-runnerdeploy created
```

You can see that 2 runners has been created as specified by `replicas: 2`:
You can see that 2 runners have been created as specified by `replicas: 2`:

```
$ kubectl get runners
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example-runnerdeploy2475h595fr mumoshu/actions-runner-controller-ci Running
example-runnerdeploy2475ht2qbr mumoshu/actions-runner-controller-ci Running
```

## Additional tweaks

You can pass details through the spec selector. Here's an eg. of what you may like to do:

```yaml
apiVersion: actions.summerwind.dev/v1alpha1
kind: RunnerDeployment
metadata:
name: actions-runner
namespace: default
spec:
replicas: 2
template:
spec:
nodeSelector:
node-role.kubernetes.io/test: ""

tolerations:
- effect: NoSchedule
key: node-role.kubernetes.io/test
operator: Exists

repository: mumoshu/actions-runner-controller-ci
ImagePullPolicy: Always
image: custom-image/actions-runner:latest
resources:
limits:
cpu: "4.0"
memory: "8Gi"
requests:
cpu: "2.0"
memory: "4Gi"
sidecarContainers:
- name: mysql
image: mysql:5.7
env:
- name: MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD
value: abcd1234
securityContext:
runAsUser: 0
```

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