Runners requirements

• big (6-16 cores, 64Gb SSD, 16Gb memory, 2Gb swap)
• small (4 cores, 64Gb SSD, 8Gb memory, 2Gb swap)

Preparation

Adding x86 runner to your Jammy VM (check here if any changes):

$ mkdir actions-runner 
$ cd actions-runner
$ curl -o actions-runner-linux-x64-2.294.0.tar.gz -L https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v2.294.0/actions-runner-linux-x64-2.294.0.tar.gz
$ tar xzf ./actions-runner-linux-x64-2.294.0.tar.gz

Configuration

Once asked, tag your runner accordingly:

• small
• big
• arm64

Start the configuration experience

$ ./config.sh --url https://github.com/armbian --token XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

You need to get a valid token from our DevOps team to proceed.

Create startup scripts

sudo ./svc.sh install # install
sudo ./svc.sh start   # start
sudo ./svc.sh status  # check

Use workflows in forked repositories

forked-helper.yml workflow helper can help to run custom workflows on the forked repositories.

1. Create a fine-grained Personal Access Token (PAT) with the repo scope and store it as a secret. It needs the following permissions on the target repositories:
   • contents: read & write
   • metadata: read only (automatically selected when selecting the contents permission)
2. Create a secret named ARMBIAN_SELF_DISPATCH_TOKEN on your repository with security_events permissions. To do this, head to your forked repository, go to Settings on the top bar, select Secrets and variables and then Actions. From here you can create a new repository secret.
   • Name: ARMBIAN_SELF_DISPATCH_TOKEN
   • Secret: Paste your fine-grained Personal Access Token that you created in step 1 here
3. Helper will dispatch repository_dispatch event armbian on push, release, deployment, pull_request and workflow_dispatch events. All needed event details you can find in client_payload property of the event.
4. Create empty default branch in forked repository
5. Create workflow with repository_dispatch in default branch.
6. Run any need actions in this workflow.

Workflow example:

name: Test Armbian dispatch

on:
  repository_dispatch:
    types: ["armbian"]

jobs:
  show-dispatch:
    name: Show dispatch event details
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: hmarr/debug-action@v2