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]>
The Kubernetes backend copies actions and other files into the job container with `tar` over `pods/exec`, so the data goes through the API server, which on managed clusters often sits in other zones than the nodes (each copied byte then crosses zones twice). Actions are megabytes of JavaScript bundles that gzip about fivefold:
| Action | tar | gzip |
|---|---|---|
| actions/setup-go@v5 | 8.0 MB | 1.5 MB |
| actions/cache@v4 | 11.6 MB | 2.0 MB |
| actions/setup-java@v4 | 15.3 MB | 2.5 MB |
| docker/build-push-action@v6 | 12.9 MB | 3.0 MB |
The startup probe now also reports whether the job container has `gzip`. If it does, `CopyDir` and copies of 64 KiB or more are gzipped at `BestSpeed` and extracted with `gzip -dc | tar -xf -`. Smaller copies (run scripts, file command files) stay uncompressed, where gzip would save next to nothing and cost a process in the pod. Images without `gzip` keep the plain tar stream, so the image requirements do not change.
This is independent of #1354 and gets most of its traffic saving with no new moving parts.
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Co-authored-by: Zettat123 <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1355
Reviewed-by: Zettat123 <[email protected]>
Extends the e2e suite with scenarios for host labels, local `workflow_call`, label routing, `runner.capacity`, a dropped and restored connection to Gitea, and the daemon's `--once`, `--labels` and `shutdown_timeout` behaviour.
Stacked on https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1346, so its commit shows here until that merges. The new scenarios pass locally against gitea/gitea:latest and main-nightly.
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Co-authored-by: Zettat123 <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1347
Reviewed-by: Zettat123 <[email protected]>
The e2e suite started the runner in-process and never exercised failing jobs. This adds a scenario that builds the binary and drives `register` then `daemon` against the Gitea fixture, and one for failed, skipped, continue-on-error and timed-out jobs.
Verified locally against gitea/gitea:main-nightly.
Assisted-by: Codet:codet
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1346
Reviewed-by: Zettat123 <[email protected]>
The runner's own messages between steps (not step output) were uploaded to the job log at `log.level`, so raising `log.level` for local debugging also changed what workflow authors see in Gitea, and lowering it hid messages from them.
Add `runner.log_report_level` to set that independently. Unset, it still follows `log.level`, so existing setups behave as before. An invalid value is rejected when the config loads.
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Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1310
Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>
actionslib v1.4.1 no longer logs through logrus, so the workflow model no longer needs the logrus bridge. The bridge stays for docker/cli and moby/go-archive, which still log through logrus's global logger; the comment now says so.
actionslib now logs through slog's global logger, which the runner did not capture. A new slog bridge forwards it to the process-wide logger, so its messages keep the runner's level, format and secret masking.
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Co-authored-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1313
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>
Log through `log/slog`, with a console `slog.Handler` that writes the text the runner has always written (sorted `key=value` fields on a plain stream, a colored prefix on a terminal), so nothing changes for users. I compared its output byte for byte with logrus's `TextFormatter` over plain, colored, timestamped and caller cases.
Why not `slog.TextHandler`: its output differs from what users and their log parsers see today, and `ReplaceAttr` cannot close the gap.
- level is `WARN` where logrus wrote `warning`, and time has milliseconds and no quotes
- fields keep call order instead of being sorted
- the caller is one `source=` key, where the runner writes `func=` and `file=` (reshaped by `callPrettyfier`), and `ReplaceAttr` returns a single attribute
- no colored prefix on a terminal
- no hook to rewrite a whole formatted line, which the process-wide secret masking relies on
Libraries that log through logrus's global logger (the workflow model, the Docker client) are forwarded to the process-wide logger, so they keep following its level, format and secret masking. This is why logrus stays in `go.mod`.
Stacked on https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1303.
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Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1304
Reviewed-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.
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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.
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Co-authored-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1295
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Release artifacts were uploaded to both AWS S3 and Cloudflare R2 during the migration period. Drop the goreleaser `blobs:` S3 pipe and the AWS_*/S3_* secrets from the release workflows, so artifacts are published to Cloudflare R2 only.
Assisted-by: Codet:GPT-5.1-Codex
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1169
Reviewed-by: bircni <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <[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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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]>
Mirrors every release artifact into Cloudflare R2 alongside the existing AWS S3
upload, so both buckets carry the same objects during a parallel period. S3 is
untouched and stays authoritative for now; once R2 is confirmed complete it can
be dropped by deleting the `blobs:` block and pointing this at R2 alone.
### Why `publishers:` and not a second `blobs:` entry
goreleaser's blob pipe authenticates from the global `AWS_*` environment and has
no per-entry credential fields, so two different credential sets (AWS S3 and
Cloudflare R2) cannot coexist in `blobs:`. Custom publishers do support
per-entry `env:`, which is the supported way to isolate the two.
### Why `curl --aws-sigv4` and not `aws`/`rclone`
The CI image `docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-latest` ships none of `aws`,
`rclone`, `s3cmd` or `mc`, but does ship curl 8.5 with `--aws-sigv4`. This keeps
the change zero-install. Credentials are fed to curl through a config file on
stdin rather than argv, so they never appear in the process list.
### Behaviour
- Object layout is identical to S3 (`gitea-runner/<version>/<artifact>`), so
migrating consumers later means changing only the host, not the path.
- Nightly gets R2 too, matching the existing nightly-to-S3 behaviour.
- Missing R2 configuration fails the build. Because custom publishers run as the
very last step of the publish pipeline, a preflight `--check-config` step runs
right after checkout so the failure happens before anything is built or
published rather than after the release already exists.
- Verified against a local MinIO instance (site region `auto`, matching R2):
successful upload byte-compared after download, plus the missing-variable,
wrong-credentials, missing-file and bad-argument paths.
### Required repository secrets
These must be configured before the next release run, otherwise the new
preflight step will fail the workflow:
- `R2_ENDPOINT` (full base URL, e.g. `https://<account>.r2.cloudflarestorage.com`)
- `R2_BUCKET`
- `R2_ACCESS_KEY_ID`
- `R2_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`
### Known, deliberate wart
The publisher runs 109 times for 73 distinct object keys: goreleaser's release
pipe already registers `release.extra_files` as `UploadableFile` artifacts, and
`internal/exec` appends the publisher's own `extra_files` on top with no
de-duplication. It cannot be globbed away because `gobwas/glob` has no
substring-exclusion matcher, so `./**.sha256` cannot be narrowed to exclude
`*.xz.sha256`. It is harmless since PUT is idempotent, and the redundant
`./**.xz` glob is kept on purpose so the publisher declares its own complete
file set instead of implicitly depending on the `release:` block's globs. This
is documented in a comment above the block.
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1114
Reviewed-by: Zettat123 <[email protected]>
It displayed an unused log and start an unused go routine. We should check the executors number before continue.
```
INFO[2026-05-12T21:01:04-07:00] Running job with maxParallel=1 for 1 matrix combinations
INFO[2026-05-12T21:01:04-07:00] NewParallelExecutor: Creating 1 workers for 1 executors
INFO[2026-05-12T21:01:04-07:00] NewParallelExecutor: Creating 1 workers for 0 executors
INFO[2026-05-12T21:01:04-07:00] NewParallelExecutor: Creating 1 workers for 0 executors
```
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/960
Reviewed-by: silverwind <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>
Co-committed-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>
Fixes#957.
## Why
The runner builds a custom `http.Transport` for its RPC client. From first principles, once we stop using the default transport we also stop inheriting its default proxy resolution behavior, so `HTTP_PROXY`/`HTTPS_PROXY` are ignored unless we wire that behavior back explicitly.
## What
- set `Proxy: http.ProxyFromEnvironment` on the custom transport
- add a regression test that verifies `getHTTPClient` honors proxy environment variables
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/962
Reviewed-by: ChristopherHX <[email protected]>
## Summary
- clone the runner environment map for each task before injecting runtime and OIDC tokens
- keep the shared base environment immutable so concurrent jobs cannot hit `concurrent map writes`
- add a unit test covering task-local env cloning
Fixes#958
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Co-authored-by: Nicolas <[email protected]>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/959
Reviewed-by: Nicolas <[email protected]>
When deploy a Gitea server with a self-signed HTTPS certification. Runner will be failed when connect to Gitea server. This PR will fix that to allow ignore the HTTPS certification verification.
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner/pulls/18
Reviewed-by: Jason Song <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>
Co-committed-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>
