GitHub Actions: Dive into actions-runner-controller (ARC) || Advanced installation & configuration 

I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for your amazing tutorial on creating an actions-runner-controller. Your explanation was clear, concise, and incredibly helpful. The step-by-step instructions and the attention to detail made it easy to follow along and understand the entire process. Your video has made a significant impact on my project, and I appreciate the effort you put into making such high-quality content. Please keep up the fantastic work; your expertise and teaching style are much appreciated! Looking forward to more great tutorials from you. Although the actions-runner and controller image version changed from 0.4.0 to 0.9.2, everything else was mostly the same and very well controlled by the values.yaml file. I also liked how you distinguished and demonstrated the two different container types (Docker in Docker and Kubernetes) for the runner skill set.

Your detailed exploration of the actions-runner repositorys was incredibly helpful. Thank you for providing such a valuable resource.

Thanks It was really a very good in-depth explanation of history, and evolution of ARC along with guidance to setup inhouse.

Thanks for the in depth explanation of whats new in ARC, the design seems better, though communication around the upgrade is made harder by deprecating labels.

Thanks a lot Bassem, I loved the details and the depth of the information presented.

Thank you so much for creating this! Extremely didactic and rich in content! You've got a new follower here :)

Gotta say, you explain things very clearly and have a vast knowledge of many topics. Thanks for this, watched from start to finish. Greetings from Israel.

Thank you so much for the great content! The way you explain things and break them down is extremely helpful, you are a very good teacher! A small input, not sure if I am doing something wrong, but when creating the App Kubernetes secret we are using the arc-runners namespace, however it has not yet been created. The namespace "arc-runners" is created later when creating custom self-signed certs. I was able to create the secrete in the namespace after creating the namespace in self-signed certs walk-through later in the lesson. Alternatively, I guess we can create the namespace when creating secret as opposed to when creating self-signed certs?

Really really good and clear explanation. Content creators should learn from you how it's done

Woah, I was planing to simply upadte our ARC, but it looks like i got more work to do 🥳

Hi Bassem, thanks for the video! One question - as a long user of the community solution, i wonder why you say "you cannot build docker images with dind", since we have been building docker images just find with dind on arc. Could you help me understand?

Could you please demonstrate a CD flow where you are connecting these ARC runner to work as a Managed Identity and connect it to another AKS clusters to perform a CD

This is amazing working demo 🎉 Thank You ☺️ for motivating me to setup my own ARC. Quick question : where can I change the name of the runner Operation System ? , I want to setup RHEL runners.

I appreciate the effort you've shared with us.

Which is more appropriate to deploy in ARC Depyomentrunner with horizontal runner scaler or runner-scale-set?

Thank you for the explanation! would it be possible to use GKE as part of the kubernetes cluster?

Great video. Thank you!. Documentation says to install certs manager before you install ARC. However I do not remember seeing any instructions on it. Please advise. Do we need Certs manager?

Hey! Thanks for the clear explanations! I got a question: Do you know where I can find an image that is using Ubuntu 20 instead of Ubuntu 22. Or it won't be supported for runner-scale-sets?

are there any plans to add windows images and document how to use it?

Does it support aks virtual nodes? Great vid and solution thanks!

how are you managing upgrading the runners (since helm will not auto-update CRDs)

Thank you. It was a great presentation! One query here- How can be monitor the action runner controller ? Can we get the traces and service metrics for action runner controllers?

Why action-runner-controller deletes runners pod and does not wait for cluster autoscaler? I did not find any values to manage a timing that would allow me to have a zero scaled node pool for my github runners, so we still use gitlab, it is waiting the node to be ready by default.

Insightful, thank you lots! I've got a question regarding kubernetes mode. Are we able to set the resource requests & limits for the child pods?

This really good technical explanation, thank you! I have a question about building docker image in arc runners - you mentioned that this is not supported. Do you have any workaround or other solution to recommend ? I would like to use ARC in my organization, however majority of our pipelines build and push docker images.

Thanks for your very helpful video. i was able to understand it much better. I was able to set-up the self-hosted runner in Kubernetes mode. can you please give me an idea on how to implement kaniko to build and push images on self-hosted runner set in kubernetes mode. is there a documentation for this already? Thank you very much

Hi there, I am able to get arc deployed to eks with fargate backend. However I am unable to get docker builds on these runners.

Is there is any tracing feature available in GitHub actions currently?

Hi I'm getting this Error: Container feature is not supported when runner is already running inside container. Any workarounds for this?

What are the deployment strategies followed for GitHub self-hosted runners here? If we update and apply changes, will the existing runner be removed and a new runner created, or will the newer runner come first and the older runner be removed?

How do i pass the image name dynamically during helm install (listener scale set). I dont want to hardcode the image details in my valaues.yaml file

I am not able to comment on my old message, But I was saying can we connect on sperate bridge so that I can explain the issues more briefly? We have GitHub Enterprise support as well....

Hi, does anyone know which of his videos have Github apps configuration and installation?

Thanks for the video Bassem, I was just wondering, we are using old legacy mode for now, is there a way to have long living containers that can share(have warmed up caches) so during business hours we can run similar workflows faster. We achieved this in the old mode by removing the ephemeral flag and performing scaling slower.

Thank you, Great video!!! you saved me a lot of time. I have a question regards the docker image I'm using for the runners. I'm using containerMode dind with 2.311.0 image and i notice that it doesn't contains the Third-party like aws cli, git ... I couldn't find how can i use the ubuntu-22.04 image or something similar.

I have implemented actions runner controller with DIND mode in our env and rolled out to developers. Developers are not satisfied with the performance we are getting. It is very very slow as compared to GitHub hosted runners. Can you please suggest any optimisations which can improve the speed of building the job?

hi I m using enterprise 3.8.8 version currently. I m having issue in listener pods. Which version does ARC supports? Could you plz comment it

How do we define to use windows image for actions runner? There are lot of workflows in the repos that we have which runs on windows based runners.

Is there an actual working example of gha-runner-scale-set anywhere? I can get the most trivial echo action to work just fine, but anything with docker or volumes fails with errors or permissions or both

Can we run job on VM instead of pods using ARC, do you support registring Vm spawned by kubevirt?