Minimal example for running workflows via act without github?

[kreha1]

Hi, I was trying to get it running with your version of act, but it won't recognize self-hosted runner and wants me to select image size, which then modifies .actrc file. It always wants me to set docker image for the runner.

I'm using GHE at work and I wanted to improve time debugging workflows in a big monorepo. That is how I found your project after act didn't work for me as it only provides virtual environments which we don't use.

[ChristopherHX]

You mean this component https:/ChristopherHX/act?
It has an undocumented flag to run on your host machine for example

on: push
jobs:
  _:
    runs-on: self-hosted
    steps:
    - run: echo "Run without docker"

Run act like

act -P self-hosted=-self-hosted

I have planned that this mode will be integrated in nektos/act, nektos/act#1293

I prefer to use actions/runner to run things locally on supported platforms and created this drop in replacement in 2021 for act https:/ChristopherHX/runner.server/, this programm understands the flag -P self-hosted=-self-hosted too.

[kreha1]

I had actually read other components you've mentioned in this repo's readme file, and I had tried using this example .actrc configuration, just the self-hosted bit like you've mentioned in the reply... and it turns out that the linux part in -P self-hosted,linux=-self-hosted was marking it as unsupported platform (even though I'm on ubuntu 18.04).
So thanks for the quick reply, as it helped :).

I'm wondering now if I run runner.server in a container and expose its port, should your version of act still recognize it?

[ChristopherHX]

The instructions of runner.server doesn't work with act, runner.server is my github actions server software for self-hosting github actions without using github-enterprise. runner.server has a cli client named Runner.Client/gharun, which supports this syntax -P self-hosted,linux=-self-hosted

My version of act only understands -P self-hosted=-self-hosted -P linux=-self-hosted and it doesn't use anything from runner.server at all.

I'm wondering now if I run runner.server in a container and expose its port, should your version of act still recognize it?

I think my documentation confused you a bit, you cannot use ChristopherHX/act with ChristopherHX/runner.server these programs are not compatible.

However you can use the binary github-act-runner from this repository as a self-hosted runner and configure it against github.com or ChristopherHX/runner.server

[kreha1]

I see. But again, thank you. Now I can start playing with it, and I hope that it will greatly decrease iteration time for debugging my workflows :).