awesome-runners
github.com/jonico/awesome-runners ↗A curated list of awesome self-hosted GitHub Action runners in a large comparison matrix
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Installation instructions →What's inside
The matrix (might be better readable on GitHub pages)
- actions/actions-runner-controller
k8s
- boozallen/goobernetes
k8s
- ChristopherHX/github-act-runner
bare metal
- cloudbase/garm
k8s,VM,Bare Metal ( pluggable ), available providers: k8s , EC2 , OpenStack , OCI , GCP , LXD , Incus , Equinix Metal , Azure .
- CloudSnorkel/cdk-github-runners
Docker on AWS CodeBuild, Fargate or Lambda
- cosmoconsult/github-runner-windows
Windows Docker container
Purpose
- GitHub Actions secure use referenceGeneral collection of self-hosted runner best practices
GitHub's guidance for hardening workflows, secrets, permissions, and self-hosted runner usage.
- Harden-RunnerGeneral collection of self-hosted runner best practices
Runtime security monitoring and egress control for GitHub Actions runners, including self-hosted runner deployments.
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