feat: Add container to propagate host network MTU (#1201)

* feat: Add container to propagate host network MTU

Some network environments use non-standard MTU values. In these
situations, the `DockerMTU` setting might be used to specify the MTU
setting for the `bridge` network created by Docker. However, when the
Github Actions workflow creates networks, it doesn't propagate the
`bridge` network MTU which can lead to `connection reset by peer`
messages.

To overcome this, I've created a new docker image called
`summerwind/actions-runner-mtu` that shims the docker binary in order to
propagate the MTU setting to networks created by Github workflows.

This is a follow-up on the discussion in
(#1046)[https://github.com/actions-runner-controller/actions-runner-controller/issues/1046]
and uses a separate image since there might be some unintended
side-effects with this approach.

* fixup! feat: Add container to propagate host network MTU

Co-authored-by: Yusuke Kuoka <ykuoka@gmail.com>
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Tiago Melo
2022-09-23 09:08:28 +01:00
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env: []
```
There may be more places you need to tweak for MTU.
Please consult issues like #651 for more information.
If the issue still persists, you can set the `ARC_DOCKER_MTU_PROPAGATION` to propagate the host MTU to networks created
by the GitHub Runner. For instance:
```yaml
apiVersion: actions.summerwind.dev/v1alpha1
kind: RunnerDeployment
metadata:
name: github-runner
namespace: github-system
spec:
replicas: 6
template:
spec:
dockerMTU: 1400
repository: $username/$repo
env:
- name: ARC_DOCKER_MTU_PROPAGATION
value: "true"
```
You can read the discussion regarding this issue in
(#1406)[https://github.com/actions-runner-controller/actions-runner-controller/issues/1046].
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