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Docker GitHub Actions Runner

This project provides customized GitHub Actions self-hosted runner Docker images with Docker-in-Docker (DinD) support, Go (Golang), and Node.js pre-installed. It is built upon the myoung34/github-runner base image.

Features

  • Lightweight & Powerful: Optimized Docker images for various Linux distributions.
  • Go Support: Go (Golang) v1.25.9 pre-installed and configured.
  • Node.js Support: Node.js v24 (with npm, npx, and corepack) pre-installed and configured.
  • Build Essentials: Includes essential build tools like gcc, g++, make, and pkg-config.
  • Multi-Distro Support: Available variants based on Ubuntu (Focal, Jammy, Noble) and Debian (Buster, Bookworm, Sid).
  • Automated Publishing: Automatically updated and pushed to GHCR (GitHub Container Registry) via GitHub Actions.

Supported Variants

The following tags are available on GHCR:

Tag Base OS
latest Latest stable release
bookworm Debian 12 (Bookworm)
buster Debian 10 (Buster)
focal Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal)
jammy Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy)
noble Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble)
sid Debian Unstable (Sid)

Usage

To run the runner using Docker, you can use the following command:

docker run -d --restart always \
  --name github-runner \
  -e REPO_URL="https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_REPO" \
  -e RUNNER_NAME="my-runner" \
  -e RUNNER_TOKEN="YOUR_GITHUB_RUNNER_TOKEN" \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  ghcr.io/mehyaa/github-runner:latest

Important Environment Variables

  • REPO_URL: The URL of your GitHub repository (e.g., https://github.com/user/repo).
  • RUNNER_TOKEN: The registration token obtained from GitHub.
  • RUNNER_NAME: A unique name for your runner.
  • RUNNER_WORK_DIRECTORY: The working directory for the runner (Optional).

Docker-in-Docker (DinD)

These images require the host's /var/run/docker.sock to be mounted to allow running Docker commands (build, push, etc.) within your workflows.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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