Without a docker daemon six `act/runner` tests failed instead of passing. A dry run still created and removed job networks, the job teardown dropped the dry-run flag along with every other context value, and the container mocks asked the daemon for the runner arch.
This also speeds up the tests and CI without dropping assertions. Most of the time went to git and docker round trips, which are now pinned, batched or coalesced, and the dind and e2e steps cache or overlap more of their setup. On CI, `act/runner` went from 77s to 55s and `test-dind` from 108s to 55s. Locally, `act/runner` without docker went from 53s to 7s.
Split out of https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1348, which adds Windows CI on top. The go cache changes moved to https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1350.
Written by Claude Code.
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Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1349
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Contains a number of small bug fixes where jobs behaved differently from GitHub or failed silently.
1. Hooks fail on a refused `::set-env::` or `::add-path::` and no longer inherit the last step's identity
1. Docker build, exec and wait errors are returned instead of swallowed, token-only registry credentials work, logs of `--tty` services decode
1. Env files split lines like GitHub on each OS, so a carriage return is kept on Linux and CRLF ends a line on Windows, empty heredoc names or delimiters are rejected
1. Post steps run after their pre step even when main was skipped, composites see undeclared inputs, `runs.args` wins without `with.args` being parsed
1. Docker actions skip evaluating defaults of inputs given in `with` and read `entryPoint` and `args` in any case, a lowercase `dockerfile` is found, undeclared inputs get GitHub's warning
1. A user-set `CI` is kept, `GITHUB_REPOSITORY_ID` and the other missing `GITHUB_*` variables are exported
1. `timeout-minutes` can read the step's own `env`, a step-level `ACTIONS_ALLOW_UNSECURE_COMMANDS: false` beats a job-level `true` while the runner's own opt-in still wins, `pwsh` quotes the script path
1. A step `env:` given as one expression such as `${{ fromJSON(matrix.env) }}` is applied, `hashFiles` fails with GitHub's messages on script errors and after 120 seconds, a job image without node still gets an empty hash
1. A step whose command files cannot be reset fails instead of importing stale ones, a timeout between steps fails the job instead of reporting success
1. One named volume can be mounted at several paths, host-mode PTY steps keep their last output when they fail, host scratch directories are removed when job setup fails
1. Cancelling a step right after it starts kills its whole process tree
1. Cache prefix restores pick the newest entry created within the same second, also on S3, cache commits with a wrong size are rejected
1. Artifact chunks are written at their offset, download URLs are escaped, listing a run without artifacts no longer crashes
1. Poll backoff reaches `fetch_interval_max`, proxy passwords are masked in more forms, secrets are also masked in step names and in their quoted form in the runner log, a failed final report is logged
1. On Windows hosts a differently cased unsecure-commands opt-in or proxy variable counts, and an early cancel no longer leaks a job object handle
1. Interactive `register` prompts for a missing token and stops on SIGTERM, `exec --list --detect-event` no longer panics without events, `config set` works on `cache.s3` keys
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1338
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
1. Replace bolthold with direct bbolt access in the cache server. bolthold has not changed since March 2024 and kept `encoding/gob` in the binary although the store was already JSON. The on-disk layout stays the same, so existing caches keep working, and the index buckets bolthold left behind are dropped on the first sweep. Queries now run against an in-memory copy of the entries that is only re-read after another process wrote to the store, so lookups and sweeps no longer decode the whole store.
2. Replace gofakes3 with a small in-memory S3 fake in the one test that used it, which removes aws-sdk-go-v2, afero, mgo and x/tools from the module graph.
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1336
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
- Look up containers by name instead of listing all of them
- On Linux, cache the docker proxy discovery instead of starting a probe container per job
- Download a job's actions concurrently and share identical fetches between concurrent jobs
- Cache `runner.arch` per run and poll service health every 250ms
- Cache server: queue on an in-process lock instead of polling the database file lock, upload S3 objects up to 64MiB in one request and larger ones in 4 concurrent parts
| `exec`, median of 5 | Before | After |
|---|---:|---:|
| 1 step | 1.70s | 0.87s |
| 10 steps | 2.84s | 1.97s |
| Service + step | 3.78s | 2.18s |
| checkout + Node action | 3.64s | 2.52s |
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1327
Reviewed-by: Zettat123 <[email protected]>
Store the cache used by `actions/cache` in an S3-compatible bucket such as AWS S3 or RustFS, with no `cache-server`. Runners with the same settings use the same cache.
A cache saved on one runner can be restored on the others within 30 seconds. The runner talks to the bucket over the S3 REST API with SigV4, without an SDK. Lifecycle rules on the bucket expire old caches.
*Description rewritten by Claude.*
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Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1244
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>