It would be completely challenging because they have to add their needed configurations to the runners. Now imagine we have planned to add several new jobs by a team of developers. We assumed we needed to add a single new job to the pipeline. But some problems may arise here as well. So it would be better to go on with the second approach, reconfiguring the runners. Can you imagine how it would be hard to maintain all of them? Thus, we won’t pick it as a reasonable solution. With the first approach, we will have lots of runners after a while, and each of them will perform a particular job in the pipeline. In the second one, our previously configured runners will be able to perform the new job. So in our example, it just runs the Danger job. We have a new runner in the first solution, which is only responsible for the jobs with the newly added tag. Let’s see what’s the difference between these two approaches.
Second, we can update all - or at least some of - the current machines to adapt to the new job. First, we can set up a single new runner with a particular tag (e.g., “Danger”) to handle that kind of job.
Assume we’ve added Danger to our iOS project, so we need to install the Danger binary on our runners. For more information, see the GitHub Enterprise Cloud documentation.Photo by Charles Patterson on Unsplash What’s the problem?Īs our pipelines change, we may need to reconfigure our CI/CD runners iteratively. If you use GitHub Enterprise Cloud, you can also remove runners from an enterprise. Under your organization name, click Settings. On, navigate to the main page of the organization.
For information about how to remove a self-hosted runner with the REST API, see " Self-hosted runners." We recommend that you also have access to the self-hosted runner machine. To remove a self-hosted runner from an organization, you must be an organization owner. If you don't have access to the machine: Click Force remove this runner to force GitHub to remove the runner. Removes any services configured if not running in interactive mode.Removes any self-hosted runner application configuration files on the machine.The removal command does the following tasks: The instructions include the required URL and an automatically-generated, time-limited token. If you have access to the runner machine: Follow the on-screen instructions for your machine's operating system to run the removal command. Complete either of the following steps to remove the runner, depending on whether it is still accessible: You will see instructions for removing the self-hosted runner. In the list of runners, click the runner you'd like to configure. In the left sidebar, click Actions, then click Runners. Under your repository name, click Settings. On, navigate to the main page of the repository. This allows the runner to be registered without having to re-download the self-hosted runner application. runner file inside the self-hosted runner application directory. For information about how to remove a self-hosted runner with the REST API, see " Self-hosted runners."Īlternatively, if you don't have access to the repository or organization on GitHub to remove a runner, but you would like to re-use the runner machine, then you can delete the. For an organization repository, you must be an organization owner or have admin access to the repository. To remove a self-hosted runner from a user repository you must be the repository owner. The runner will remain assigned in an "Offline" state, and won't execute any jobs until you restart the runner using the run application.Ī self-hosted runner is automatically removed from GitHub if it has not connected to GitHub Actions for more than 14 days.Īn ephemeral self-hosted runner is automatically removed from GitHub if it has not connected to GitHub Actions for more than 1 day. If you only want to temporarily stop a runner from being assigned jobs, you can either shut down the machine or stop the run application. Note: This procedure permanently removes the self-hosted runner.