Ephemeral mode
joeyparrish opened this issue · comments
Any interest in an "ephemeral mode"? I've been working on this for my own purposes, but if you're interested, I'll send a PR instead of maintaining an indefinite fork.
The idea is to launch an alternative script (overriding CMD in Dockerfile). Instead of /actions-runner/bin/runsvc.sh, this script would run /actions-runner/run.sh --once, with special handling to re-launch after software updates.
When the job is finished, the container terminates. This is then wrapped in a system service that starts a fresh container, giving us an ephemeral, self-hosted runner, more like what you expect from GitHub's own runner VMs.
Id be curious to see it, but ideally id rather the runner team resolve actions/runner#246 for a lot of reasons instead of adding that complexity here
I completely agree. Upstream support would be better.
I'll create the PR anyway. I think you'll find it's not too bad. Less than 40 lines of bash, just one script, no other changes.