ansible-github-runner

Installs a github self hosted runner within a docker container.

This is done so we don't need to recreate the work done for downloading, installing, configuring and running the runner as a deamon directly on the host system.

We make use of: https://github.com/myoung34/docker-github-actions-runner for a runner without java / android, or https://github.com/compscidr/docker-github-actions-runner-android for a runner with java / android.

This is a collection instead of a role because it has a collection dependency on the ansible community docker collection in order to install the runner with a docker container.

Usage

See the docs at roles/github_runner for more details

Add the collection to your meta/requirements.yml:

collections:
    - name: compscidr.github_runner
        version: "<insert version here>"

Install the collection:

ansible-galaxy install -r meta/requirements.yml

Use in a playbook:

---
- name: Github Runners
    hosts: some_hosts
    vars_files:
        - vars/some_vars.yml
    roles:
        - role: compscidr.github_runner.github_runner
            vars:
                github_runner_name: "some-runner-name"
                github_runner_java: true
                github_runner_install_docker: false
                github_runner_java_mount_usb: true
                github_runner_repo: "my_repo"
        - role: compscidr.github_runner.github_runner
            vars:
                github_runner_name: "some-org"
                github_runner_java: true
                github_runner_install_docker: false
                github_runner_java_mount_usb: true
                github_runner_org: true
                github_runner_org_name: "my-org"

Variables

Variable	Description
github_runner_install_docker	Set to true to install docker with the nickjj.docker role (defaults to true)
github_runner_personal_access_token	GH personal access toke, see: https://github.com/myoung34/docker-github-actions-runner/wiki/Usage#token-scope for permissions needed
github_runner_name	the name for the runner (will show up in GH to differentiate runners)
github_runner_repo: user-name/repo	the repo for the runner (ignored if an org runner)
github_runner_labels: self-hosted	labels to attach to the runner (comma separated)
github_runner_org: false	true for org runner, false for repo runner
github_runner_org_name: org name	org name if an org runner, otherwise ignored
github_runner_java: false	whether to use an android / java runner image or not
github_runner_java_mount_usb: false	whether to mount usb (for instance if running tests on actual phones)
github_runner_java_image: compscidr/github-runner-android:latest	the java / android runner image
github_runner_non_java_image: myoung34/github-runner:latest	the non-java/android runner image
github_runner_env_file: false	env file for passing extra environment variables into the runner container
github_runner_env_filename: ".env"	the filename of the env file for passing extra environment variables into the container
github_runner_github_host: "github.com"	The GITHUB_HOST used for registering the runner.

Notes: the env file lets you do things like set site-specific credentials into the runner that can be built into the code at build time, for instance, Wi-Fi credentials that can be built into tests that are specific to the location of where the runner container is located.

Testing

Using a clean slate vagrant ubuntu vm from the vagrant folder run vagrant up and then use vagrant ssh to get into the machine, then ansible-playbook playbooks/github_actions.yml

If changes are made, you can re-run: ansible-galaxy collection build --force and ansible-galaxy collection install *tar.gz --force

Inspiration

• https://github.com/macunha1/ansible-github-actions-runner
• https://github.com/buluma/ansible-collection-roles