The Kubernetes backend copies actions and workspaces into job containers with `tar` over `pods/exec`, so every byte goes through the API server. On managed clusters that often sits in other zones than the nodes, so each byte can cross zones twice, and the copies load the API server.
With `kubernetes.transfer.mode: auto` or `direct`, an init container copies `gitea-runner` into the job pod, and the job container fetches directories and copies of 64 KiB or more gzipped from the runner over the pod network. `auto` falls back to the API server for a job pod that cannot reach the runner, `direct` fails the job.
Copies can hold secrets, so each is served once, over TLS 1.3 pinned to a certificate the runner generates, only to the job pod's IPs.
Copying setup-go@v5, cache@v4, setup-java@v4 and build-push-action@v6 sends 11.6 MB through the API server on main and 532 B with this PR.
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1354
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>
Cache entries were only scoped by repository, so an entry a pull request saved could be restored on the default branch, for example through a `restore-keys` prefix.
Entries now carry the ref of the job that saved them. As on GitHub ([Restrictions for accessing a cache](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflows-and-actions/dependency-caching#restrictions-for-accessing-a-cache)), a job restores entries of its own ref first, then of its pull request's base branch, then of the default branch. Pull request events are scoped by their pull request number.
Entries saved before this change are no longer restored and expire through `cache.retention`, so caches start cold once after the upgrade. Runners sharing a cache, and an external `cache-server`, should be upgraded together.
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1361
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: JorgeDLMV <[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]>
Removes dead code and redundant logic and consolidates tests, so there is less to read and maintain. No behavior change.
1. **act/runner**: inline single-use wrappers, compile regexes once instead of per call, embed the trampoline as a string, drop the unused legacy result of `parseActionCommand`
2. **act/container**: `sanitizeConfig` and `mergeContainerConfigs` stop returning the configs they already mutate in place, drop never-set option fields and the unused `user` parameter of `ExecWithCmdLine`
3. **act/common and cache server**: drop the unused `Trace`/`Tracef` loggers and the short SHA of `FindGitRevision`, `RegisterJob` releases through `RevokeJob`
4. **daemon, poller and reporter**: one shutdown wait for both poll modes, drop an unreachable fetch timeout branch, guard the reporter's last report time with its existing lock instead of an atomic
5. **build**: drop unused Makefile and release workflow variables, collapse the goreleaser ignore list to the same build targets
6. **tests**: fold near-duplicate tests into tables with shared setup
Throughout, hand-rolled logic gives way to `cmp.Or`, `strings.Cut`, `slices` and `min`/`max`.
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1335
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Migrates the runner to `connectrpc.com/connect/v2` by pinning actionslib v1.5.0, which carries https://gitea.com/gitea/actionslib/pulls/28. The wire behaviour towards Gitea is unchanged and works against Gitea servers on connect v1 and v2. The client keeps v1's unlimited response size, and the error codes and messages the runner checks stay the same.
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1325
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]>
After https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1304, logrus stayed only to forward logs from docker/cli and moby/go-archive. The runner used a small part of those: volume parsing, the build context tar, the `ssh://` connection and registry credentials. Own code that matches them replaces them, so logrus leaves the module graph. docker/cli stays for its logrus-free `opts` and `connhelper/ssh` packages.
Other dependencies that the standard library or existing ones cover go too: mergo, httprouter (replaced by `http.ServeMux`), retry-go, go-isatty, go-selinux, container-device-interface, gotest.tools and go-cmp (replaced by testify). The binary shrinks by 5%.
Behaviour differences:
1. An unreadable file in a build context is skipped with a warning, where go-archive left a truncated tar.
2. Build contexts no longer carry `security.capability` xattrs.
3. The cache and artifact servers answer HEAD on GET routes, and no longer redirect trailing slashes or answer OPTIONS.
*Written by Claude.*
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Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1319
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
On Kubernetes a service is reached by its id made a DNS label, so some service ids might become unreachable. For example, the `devstoreaccount1.azurite.local` service of Gitea's [MSSQL tests](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/2fe74d3cdd5184a7e22e32e47772caa78d077489/.github/workflows/pull-db-tests.yml#L229) is only in the pod's hosts as `devstoreaccount1-azurite-local`, while the tests connect to the id as written. Container names must be DNS labels, but `hostAliases` accepts DNS subdomains, so an id that is one is now added there too, and to `no_proxy`, as on Docker where a service is reached by its id.
The warning for a service not reachable by its id now also covers ids that differ only in case, as Kubernetes hostnames are lowercase.
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Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1320
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Zettat123 <[email protected]>
Job teardown ran every step on one shared minute. When removing the job container took longer, the network removal ran on an expired context and the network stayed behind until the orphan reclaim, which only takes networks older than `workdir_cleanup_age`, 24h by default. All that time it held a subnet of the daemon's address pool.
The job and service containers are now removed in parallel, and the docker proxy sweep, the network and the volumes get a fresh budget after them. The idle reclaim takes unused networks and volumes once they are 10 minutes old, and network removal treats a network that is already gone as removed.
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1318
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Gitea derives the steps of a job from the workflow file, so the `pre` and `post` steps of actions only show up inside "Set up job" and "Complete job", see https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/24604.
The runner now also reports the steps as it runs them (https://gitea.com/gitea/actions-proto-def/pulls/19): "Set up job", a "Pre" and "Post" step for each action that has one, the workflow steps with their evaluated names, and "Complete job", as actions/runner shows them. The per-step state Gitea reads today is unchanged, and the job log only moves "Complete job name" and "Matrix:" ahead of the pre steps, so older Gitea versions keep showing everything as before. Job hooks and containers stay part of "Set up job" and "Complete job".
The `replace` of `gitea.dev/actionslib` is swapped for the release once the proto change is merged.
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1293
Reviewed-by: Zettat123 <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Move the log calls in `internal` onto `logging`, and add what the process-wide logger setup and its tests need: `SetTextFormat` with a line filter for secret masking (replacing `report.MaskingFormatter`), `SetReportCaller`, `SetDefault` and `logtest.SetDefault`. After this only the `logging` package imports logrus.
Stacked on https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1301.
Assisted-by: Codet
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1302
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Add `act/common/logging`: a printf-style `Logger` on a slog-shaped `Handler`, with a logrus-backed handler as the only backend, plus a `logtest` handler for tests. Move the job logger onto it: `common.Logger` returns `*logging.Logger`, the job log formatters and the `Reporter` hook become handlers, and composite step IDs travel in the context.
Logging is tightly coupled to logrus types (hooks, formatters, `Entry.Data`). Going through our own interface first lets the remaining call sites move over with unchanged behavior, and lets the backend be swapped for `log/slog` in one place afterwards. The global process logger and its masking formatter stay on logrus for now.
Assisted-by: Codet
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1295
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Sends the OTLP metrics under [OpenTelemetry semantic convention](https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/semconv/) names where the runner's data matches the definition, like `cicd.worker.count`, `cicd.system.errors` and the `go.*` and `process.*` runtime metrics, and under `gitea.runner.*` otherwise. OTel dashboards then work without remapping, as they already do for the traces from https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1206.
Adds a `gitea_runner_state` gauge (`busy`, `idle`, `unavailable`), and `/readyz` now fails once the runner shuts down.
**Breaking**
1. OTLP metric names, units, types and attribute values change, and the info and start time metrics move to resource attributes.
1. Prometheus `gitea_runner_client_errors_total` gains a `code` label, and `gitea_runner_job_total` counts jobs stopped by `runner.timeout` as `timeout` instead of `failure`.
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Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1282
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: wmTJc9IK0Q <[email protected]>
The Docker proxy labels every container, network and volume a job creates and removes them when the job ends, which breaks jobs that deploy long-running services to the runner's own Docker daemon. Document that behavior and add `container.sweep` (default `true`) so operators who deploy to the same daemon can opt out. Kept resources stay labeled with `com.gitea.runner.job`.
Fixes: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1243
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1275
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Add `runner.client_cert_file` and `runner.client_key_file` for Gitea instances that require mutual TLS. The runner presents the certificate on its RPCs, job summary uploads, and the action, reusable workflow and `builtin:checkout` clones from the instance. The files are read on use, so renewed certificates apply without a restart. Job steps do not get them. An incomplete or mismatched pair fails startup.
Clones now decide the token, client certificate and `runner.insecure` with one host check, which also gives reusable workflow clones the TLS settings they lacked. `runner.insecure` still only covers the registered address.
Fixes: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/321
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1273
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Adds a Kubernetes backend. A `name:kubernetes://image` label runs the job as one pod through the Kubernetes API, with services as containers of the same pod. Step env is exported by a script sent over exec stdin, keeping it out of the pod spec and process arguments, and service env goes into a per-job Secret. Docker actions and container options are rejected. See `docs/kubernetes.md`.
Operators shape job pods with `kubernetes.pod_template`, with per-label `pod_templates` merged in `runs-on` order and a `$services` entry for service containers. The idle cleanup removes pods and Secrets a runner left behind.
The client calls the Kubernetes API directly and runs step commands over `coder/websocket` (same dependency used in gitea) instead of pulling in the heavyweight `kubernetes/client-go`. Includes an e2e test against k3s.
Replaces: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1000
Fixes: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/31
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Co-authored-by: Zettat123 <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1260
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Zettat123 <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Replace the `task N repo is ...` line with a structured `task started` entry carrying `task_id`, `job_id`, `run_id`, `run_number`, `repository` and the workflow's `job` key, so external supervisors can match runner activity to the job in Gitea. `job_id` is read from the runtime token's claims, tokens and secrets are never logged.
Closes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/752
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Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1257
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Fixes https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/38705
Gitea side: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39452
Jobs of a called workflow currently see `gitea.event_name == "workflow_call"`, and their `gitea.event.inputs` is replaced by the caller's `with:`. On GitHub they keep the caller's event, and their `inputs` are the run's `workflow_dispatch` inputs overlaid with the caller's `with:`.
For compatibility with older runners, Gitea keeps sending that form and adds a `gitea_workflow_call` key with the original trigger event name and inputs of the run, and the `inputs` Gitea resolved for the job. When the key is present, the runner restores `gitea.event_name` and `gitea.event.inputs` from it, and uses the resolved `inputs` for the job's expressions and the setup log.
Without that key (older Gitea, or jobs outside called workflows), nothing changes.
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1250
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-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]>
Make cache requests go through the runner and remove outbound traffic from the cache server. The runner forwards them to `cache.external_server` when one is set, and attaches itself to each job network so jobs can reach it.
Benefits:
1. Jobs need no http proxy rules for the cache server, which `@actions/http-client` mishandles for CIDR ranges in `no_proxy` (https://github.com/actions/toolkit/pull/2495).
2. Only runners reach a shared cache server, which needs no route to Gitea.
3. A runner container sharing the host Docker socket now caches, where jobs previously could not reach it.
Breaks:
1. Jobs that reach `external_server` but not their runner, such as a remote `DOCKER_HOST`. The built-in cache has always needed that reachability, so both modes now agree. Set `cache.host` and `cache.port` to an address those jobs reach.
2. Jobs on `container.network: bridge`, where Docker rejects the alias, so the runner cannot attach and their cache fails as it does today. Leave `container.network` empty, or name a user-defined network.
*Written by Claude.*
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Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1229
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Updates actionslib to https://gitea.com/gitea/actionslib/releases/tag/v1.2.1.
1. A job whose `if:` fails to evaluate, like `fromJSON` of an invalid job output, is skipped with the error in its log instead of failing, like on GitHub Actions.
1. Workflows the runner reads itself, like with `exec`, are rejected when an expression does not parse, like an unclosed `${{` or an unknown context, instead of failing later.
1. Task payloads from Gitea are read without that check, because they hold evaluated text that may contain `${{`.
1. `if: False`, `if: ~` and other boolean, null or number conditions work.
Gitea PR: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/39358
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1247
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Implement speedups to job start and shutdown.
- Create the job container while services are still becoming healthy, and poll their health at a flat one second instead of a 2s to 32s doubling backoff
- Pull each service image once instead of twice, and fetch a warm action cache once instead of twice
- Report the job result before reclaiming its volumes, and reap volumes stranded by a runner that died mid-job
| Step | Scenario | Before | After |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Complete job | Large workspace volume | 4.2s | 0.4s |
| Set up job | One service, 2s health interval | 7.08s | 3.26s |
| Set up job | Two cached actions from github.com | 1.81s | 1.34s |
| Set up job | Two cached actions from gitea.com | 2.42s | 1.95s |
| Set up job | Two actions, cold action cache | 6.62s | unchanged |
| Set up job | Minimal job, no services or actions | 0.62s | unchanged |
Assisted-by: Claude Code:Opus 5
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1218
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Three independent fixes, one commit each.
1. Hosts and ports were interpolated directly when building URLs, so a literal IPv6 address produced an unbracketed authority, making `ACTIONS_CACHE_URL`, `ACTIONS_RUNTIME_URL` and the artifact server listener unusable. Hosts are expected bare, as documented for `cache.host`, so an address that already carries brackets is no longer accepted.
2. `cache-server` waited on its own `os.Interrupt` channel and ignored SIGTERM, so service managers and container runtimes had to kill it.
3. Task admission used a separate `Load` and `Store`, so two concurrent dispatches of the same task id could both be admitted.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:Opus 5
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1217
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Cache v2 makes the cache server the `ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL` origin, so artifact calls arrived there and were proxied on to Gitea, failing whenever it could not reach the instance.
- Artifact calls are answered with a redirect, so the cache server opens no connection to Gitea. A scheme change or an untrusted instance is still proxied, but there the cache server is the runner itself, which already reaches Gitea.
- Failures answer in twirp, not an empty `502` that clients report as `Unexpected end of JSON input`.
- `cache.v2: false` really points artifacts at Gitea now.
- Cache reservations are bound to the job that made them, so two jobs saving one key cannot commit against each other's upload, and a retry after a lost answer no longer fails a saved entry.
- The toolkit patch, which edits the GitHub-host check out of an action's bundle, was left in the shared checkout where a job running with `runner.patch_actions: false` could inherit it. It is put back after the job's copy.
- `exec` names an origin for the cache v2 it advertises, and masks its runtime token.
Behaviour changes: `no_proxy` no longer exempts `cache.external_server`, and `cache.enabled: false` also stops external registration.
Fixes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1208
Fixes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1211
Assisted by Claude (Opus 5).
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1216
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
A secret in a matrix value reached the log in the clear:
```yaml
strategy:
matrix:
include: "${{ github.token }}"
```
Chasing that one route is pointless, so this masks every sink a secret leaves a job by: the uploaded log rows and the on-disk `job.log`, both through one choke point in `appendLogRow`; the runner's own log, which is where planning errors like that one land with no job logger in reach; the job logger's stdout under debug logging; job summaries; job outputs; and the job name that becomes a container name.
Values the runner knows but the job never declared, the proxy password and the task token, are hidden the same way. Masks apply longest first, since `strings.Replacer` matches in argument order and one secret prefixing another would otherwise mask the prefix and print the rest.
### What changes for users
An output whose value carries a secret is skipped with a warning instead of sent, matching GitHub. Output that showed a secret now shows `***`. `ACTIONS_STEP_DEBUG` and `ACTIONS_RUNNER_DEBUG` are never masked, also matching GitHub, so an output of `true` still reaches the jobs that need it.
Each fix has a test that fails without it.
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1188
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
A step that failed, for any reason, made the runner restore the action's stock bundle and mark it never to be patched again. Every later `actions/upload-artifact` run then failed with `GHESNotSupportedError`, and nothing in the log said why.
The edit is now made as the action is copied into the job container, under the lock that guards the copy, and nothing reverts it. That also closes the race where another job's checkout reset the bundle mid-job.
`cache.v2` no longer decides whether the edit is made, it only withdraws the v2 advertisement, so artifacts work whatever the cache is set to.
Also added a new `runner.patch_actions` option to turn the edit off if it ever breaks an action.
Fixes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1176
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1177
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
A job whose `runs-on` matches none of the runner's labels, which includes every job that sets no `runs-on` at all, runs in `runner.default_image`. It defaults to `docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-latest` as before, so a mirror can be pointed at instead.
A runner with no reachable docker daemon now runs such a job on the host, rather than failing on an image it cannot pull. Runners that use docker are unaffected and never probe for one.
This matters most to a host-mode runner, one whose labels are all `host`. Such a runner has no daemon to pull an image with, so a job matching none of its labels used to fail at container start. It now runs on the host, where that runner runs everything else anyway, and it takes no configuration to get there. A host-mode runner that does have a daemon within reach keeps using the image, unchanged.
Supersedes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/642
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Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1164
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
The current shared tools cache is not concurrency-safe, e.g. multiple jobs can write and corrupt it, for example `setup-go` with explicit go version under concurrency reliably corrupts the tool cache and fails all jobs.
This adds a new `runner.tool_cache_mode` (and `--tool-cache-mode` exec option) option which defaults to unshared tools cache:
- `none` mounts nothing, so a job uses what its image ships there and discards what it installs
- `shared` keeps the single volume every job reuses, and warns when `runner.capacity` is above 1
Under `none` effective tool cache can only come from the image or host, which is the same as it is on GitHub Actions which ships many preinstalled tools in its fat VM images.
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1171
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
The cache server retired entries 30 days after creation regardless of use, so a job that ran often enough to keep its cache warm still lost it on a fixed schedule. Nothing bounded the disk either.
Retention now counts from last access alone, and a repository over its limit sheds least recently accessed entries until it fits, enforced on commit as well as on the periodic sweep.
```yaml
cache:
retention: 168h # remove entries not accessed for seven days
repo_size_limit: 10GB # cap each repository
size_limit: 0 # cap the whole cache, off by default
sweep_interval: 1h # minimum time between sweeps
```
Sizes accept `10GB`, `512mb`, `1TiB` or a plain byte count, binary either way. Leave a key out for its default; `0` turns a limit off, and `0s` does the same for `retention`. Whatever these allow, the cache also sheds entries to keep free space above `health_check.min_free_disk_space_mb` when health checks are enabled, so it cannot grow past the point where the runner stops accepting work.
Supporting fixes: serving an entry stamps its access time, so a find cannot hand a job a download URL for an entry the next eviction is about to remove; an entry larger than the limit is dropped on its own account rather than emptying its repository to make room; and a blob that cannot be unlinked keeps its row, so the next sweep retries instead of orphaning bytes no limit can account for.
Closes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1168
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Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1170
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Trigger-time inputs used to be visible in the job log but are no longer shown after the "Set up job" section was reshaped. This restores them as an "Inputs" group listing each provided input and its value, rendered only when the event payload carries inputs.
For a run dispatched with `required=required input`, `with_default=default` and `boolean=true`, the "Set up job" log now shows:
```
gitea-com-gitea-0003(version:v3.0.2)
▸ Runner Information
Task: 268506
Job: test
Repository: gitea/runner
Triggered by event: workflow_dispatch
▸ Inputs
boolean: true
required: required input
with_default: default
▸ Operating System
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
linux/amd64
```
Closes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1166
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1167
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>
The cache server built every URL it hands a job from its own listen address, so jobs whose runner reaches it through a reverse proxy were sent to the internal one. This covered the v1 `archiveLocation`, the v2 signed cache URLs and `ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL`.
Runners now register the address their jobs reach the server at, next to the instance URL they already send. The cache-server needs no configuration of its own, and runners that reach it differently each get their own correct address.
Closes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1152
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Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1153
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Max P. <[email protected]>
Gitea needs the workflow model and the expression evaluator to parse workflows and to build the task payload this runner consumes, so today it depends on `gitea.com/gitea/runner` just for `act/model` and `act/exprparser`. Both packages now live in `gitea.dev/actionslib` (`pkg/model`, `pkg/exprparser`), the module both sides already share, and this repository consumes them from there.
### Changes
- `act/model` and `act/exprparser` are deleted, all imports point at `gitea.dev/actionslib/pkg/...`.
- New `act/ghcontext` package: the `GithubContext` helpers that need a git checkout on disk (`SetRef`, `SetSha`, `SetRepositoryAndOwner`) are runner only and would drag a git client plus the act context logger into the shared module, so they stay here as functions, with their tests. Only caller is `RunContext.getGithubContext`.
- `act/common.CartesianProduct` moved to the shared model package, `act/model` was its only user.
- `act/model/testdata/container-volumes` moved to `act/runner/testdata/container-volumes`, its only user is `runner_test.go`.
- `internal/pkg/client.UUIDHeader` / `TokenHeader` now alias `pkg/protocol`, so the header names cannot drift apart from Gitea.
### Notes
- No behaviour change intended: the moved files are unchanged apart from the import paths and the split described above.
- `go.mod` depends on the released `gitea.dev/actionslib v0.7.0`, which carries both https://gitea.com/gitea/actionslib/pulls/11 and the `model.UsesHash` port in https://gitea.com/gitea/actionslib/pulls/14 that `main` needs after https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1150.
- Verified with `go build ./...`, `go vet ./...` and `go test ./act/... ./internal/...`; the docker based `act/runner` integration tests (`TestRunEvent`, `TestRunMatrixWithUserDefinedInclusions`) fail identically with and without this change in my environment.
Assisted-by: Codet:GPT-5.1-Codex
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1143
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Revert #1136 and use actionslib instead.
revert chore: bump the module path to `/v3`, take the version from the VCS stamp (#1136)
gitea can not consume the runner's api by version while it's version mismatches the module version:
```
go: gitea.com/gitea/[email protected]: invalid version: module contains a go.mod file,
so module path must match major version ("gitea.com/gitea/runner/v3")
```
Fix that by bumping the module version now. The existing `v3.0.0` and `v3.0.1` tags stay unusable, so a new tag is needed after this lands.
Also drop the version `-X` linker flags, which would otherwise have to repeat the new path in both `Makefile` and `.goreleaser.yaml`, where a stale path makes injection silently no-op. Go has recorded the module version in the build info since 1.24, so `Version()` reads it from there, keeping the variable as an override for builds without a VCS stamp.
That part started as https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1137 but belongs here: the stamp resolves against the tags that are legal for the module path, so without the `/v3` bump it would report `v1.0.9-0.<ts>-<sha>`. Since `release-nightly.yml` triggers on every push to `main`, splitting them would publish a nightly with a `v1` version.
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Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1136
Reviewed-by: techknowlogick <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1148
Reviewed-by: Zettat123 <[email protected]>
gitea can not consume the runner's api by version while it's version mismatches the module version:
```
go: gitea.com/gitea/[email protected]: invalid version: module contains a go.mod file,
so module path must match major version ("gitea.com/gitea/runner/v3")
```
Fix that by bumping the module version now. The existing `v3.0.0` and `v3.0.1` tags stay unusable, so a new tag is needed after this lands.
Also drop the version `-X` linker flags, which would otherwise have to repeat the new path in both `Makefile` and `.goreleaser.yaml`, where a stale path makes injection silently no-op. Go has recorded the module version in the build info since 1.24, so `Version()` reads it from there, keeping the variable as an override for builds without a VCS stamp.
That part started as https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1137 but belongs here: the stamp resolves against the tags that are legal for the module path, so without the `/v3` bump it would report `v1.0.9-0.<ts>-<sha>`. Since `release-nightly.yml` triggers on every push to `main`, splitting them would publish a nightly with a `v1` version.
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Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1136
Reviewed-by: techknowlogick <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Service containers were started and then left alone, so a job's first step could run while a database was still starting up. The runner now waits for every service whose image or `options` declare a healthcheck, as GitHub does. An unhealthy service fails the job with its container log, one that never becomes healthy fails it after `container.service_ready_timeout` (default `5m`, negative disables the wait), and one that exits without a healthcheck only gets its log and a warning.
The started containers also fill the `job` context, whose fields existed but were never populated: `job.container.{id,network}` and `job.services.<id>.{id,network,ports}`. `ports` is keyed by the plain container port, so `job.services.postgres.ports['5432']` resolves to the host port Docker picked.
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Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1107
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
`::set-env::` and `::add-path::` let a step rewrite the environment of every later step from its own output, which the runner honoured silently. They are now refused, as GitHub has done since 2020, and `ACTIONS_ALLOW_UNSECURE_COMMANDS` opts back in per step or job. Support for that variable is new here too, and is the only opt-in, matching GitHub rather than adding a runner config key on top.
Annotations keep their source location: Gitea has no annotation store and its web UI strips command properties, so `::error file=main.go,line=12::msg` is rendered as `::error::main.go:12: msg`.
`DEVELOPMENT.md` writes down the log line encoding rules this relies on.
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Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1109
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
`ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL` names one origin serving every `github.actions.results.api.v1` service. Gitea serves the artifact half and this runner the cache half, so announcing `ACTIONS_CACHE_SERVICE_V2` while that URL pointed at Gitea was a promise the environment could not keep, and `docker buildx` posted its cache calls at Gitea and got a 404.
The cache server now forwards the artifact half to the instance each job registers with, so it is the whole results service and jobs are pointed at it. The announcement follows, and the bundle patch follows the cache URL instead.
Also fixes three things no JavaScript client reached: camelCase in the v2 responses where the Go clients read proto names, the missing `x-ms-request-id` on blob uploads that panics buildkit, and `cache.external_server` passed through without the trailing slash the v1 client concatenates onto.
Tests run the real actions against the services they look for: `actions/cache` over both API versions, the artifact actions up and back down through the forwarding, and `setup-node`. The regression itself is covered by asserting that whatever a job is handed as `ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL` answers a cache service call.
Fixes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1139
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1141
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Serves `github.actions.results.api.v1.CacheService` next to the v1 cache API, sharing its store, plus the subset of the Azure blob protocol the toolkit uploads with. On by default via `cache.v2`, and works with `external_server`.
Clients reach it through two edits in the action's own bundle: the GHES check is opened, and the cache service URL is taken from `ACTIONS_CACHE_URL`.
The same GHES check is what makes the stock `actions/upload-artifact` and `download-artifact` abort on Gitea. Opening it makes them work without the `gitea-upload-artifact` fork, from `[email protected]` on.
Verified against 118 real bundles, every major version of 16 actions: 92 patched, the rest deliberately left alone, and every patched bundle checked with `node --check`. Also end to end against pinned `actions/[email protected]` with an unreachable results URL, so only the patch can make the cache work.
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Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1110
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Leaked per-job networks each hold a subnet of the daemon's address pool and nothing reclaimed them, so a host eventually fails every job with `all predefined address pools have been fully subnetted`. This is what CI hit in https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/actions/runs/742177.
- teardown no longer loses a container, and its network with it: a failed `ContainerRemove` was reported as success, a container whose id was never learned was skipped, and the daemon's own `AutoRemove` teardown was raced
- the idle cleanup reclaims what teardown cannot: networks carry `com.gitea.runner.uuid`, so a runner only touches its own, and a cutoff keeps a job starting during the pass out of scope
- pull failures reported mid-stream were discarded, surfacing later as a confusing `No such image`; they now propagate, and fall back to a local copy instead of failing the job
- `NetworkCreate` retries pool exhaustion briefly, then says which knobs to turn
- digest-pinned images are not re-pulled, and removal kills first so it never waits out Podman's stop timeout (measured 10.1s → 0.09s per container)
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Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1124
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Set `http_proxy`, `https_proxy` and `no_proxy` in the runner's environment and everything the runner controls uses them.
Go already read them for the runner's own requests. This adds jobs, in lower and upper case, service containers, and Dockerfile action builds.
Some hosts are added to `no_proxy` for jobs so they stay direct: the cache server, loopback, the job's service containers, and a `tcp://` Docker daemon. Without the last one the Docker client sends its API calls to the proxy and docker-in-docker breaks. Gitea is not added.
Images are pulled by the Docker daemon, which has its own proxy setting. In the `dind` images it reads these same variables. The runner warns at startup if it has a proxy and the daemon does not.
Fixes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1118, originally reported as https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/708.
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Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1112
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Adds `runner.hooks.job_started` and `runner.hooks.job_completed`: operator scripts that run inside the job environment, before the job's first step and after its last one.
```yaml
runner:
hooks:
job_started: /hooks/started.sh
job_completed: /hooks/completed.sh
```
Equivalent to GitHub's `ACTIONS_RUNNER_HOOK_JOB_STARTED` / `ACTIONS_RUNNER_HOOK_JOB_COMPLETED`, which are read when unset: output is scanned for workflow commands, `$GITHUB_ENV` and `$GITHUB_PATH` are read back, and a non-zero exit fails the job.
Fixes: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/779
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1111
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Passes the `runner` context values act already knew but never reported to jobs:
1. `runner.name` / `RUNNER_NAME` — registered runner name, hostname for `exec`
2. `runner.environment` / `RUNNER_ENVIRONMENT` — `self-hosted`
3. `RUNNER_WORKSPACE` — parent of `GITHUB_WORKSPACE`
4. `runner.debug` / `RUNNER_DEBUG` — `1` when `ACTIONS_STEP_DEBUG` is set
`ImageOS` now prefers the release named in the resolved image tag, so `ubuntu-latest` mapped to `runner-images:ubuntu-24.04` reports `ubuntu24` instead of the hardcoded `ubuntu20`. The `runs-on` label stays the fallback.
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Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1105
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
This PR adds a new `cache.external_secret_file` config, which points at a file holding the secret. So the secret can come from a mounted Kubernetes/Docker secret while the rest of the config stays plain text.
```yaml
cache:
external_server: "http://cache-host:8088/"
external_secret_file: /path/to/cache_external_secret
```
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Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1100
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Zettat123 <[email protected]>
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