GitHub Actions Runners

July 9, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

Deploys self-hosted GitHub Actions runners for the OSWatcher/osw-builder repository (20 by default).

Setup

  1. Set the target host in inventory.yml.

  2. Set GitHub token:

    export GITHUB_TOKEN="your_token"

  3. Deploy runners:

    ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml site.yml

Configuration

  • Target: OSWatcher/osw-builder
  • Count: 20 runners (builder-1 to builder-20)
  • Location: /home/{user}/runners/

Edit roles/runner/vars/main.yml to modify settings.

Management

  • Stop: Set runner_state: "stopped" and re-run playbook
  • Remove: Set runner_state: "absent" and re-run playbook