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actions-runner-controller/acceptance/testdata/repo.runnerset.yaml
Yusuke Kuoka fabead8c8e feat: Workflow job based ephemeral runner scaling (#721)
This add support for two upcoming enhancements on the GitHub side of self-hosted runners, ephemeral runners, and `workflow_jow` events. You can't use these yet.

**These features are not yet generally available to all GitHub users**. Please take this pull request as a preparation to make it available to actions-runner-controller users as soon as possible after GitHub released the necessary features on their end.

**Ephemeral runners**:

The former, ephemeral runners, is basically the reliable alternative to `--once`, which we've been using when you enabled `ephemeral: true` (default in actions-runner-controller).

`--once` has been suffering from a race issue #466. `--ephemeral` fixes that.

To enable ephemeral runners with `actions/runner`, you give `--ephemeral` to `config.sh`. This updated version of `actions-runner-controller` does it for you, by using `--ephemeral` instead of `--once` when you set `RUNNER_FEATURE_FLAG_EPHEMERAL=true`.

Please read the section `Ephemeral Runners` in the updated version of our README for more information.

Note that ephemeral runners is not released on GitHub yet. And `RUNNER_FEATURE_FLAG_EPHEMERAL=true` won't work at all until the feature gets released on GitHub. Stay tuned for an announcement from GitHub!

**`workflow_job` events**:

`workflow_job` is the additional webhook event that corresponds to each GitHub Actions workflow job run. It provides `actions-runner-controller` a solid foundation to improve our webhook-based autoscale.

Formerly, we've been exploiting webhook events like `check_run` for autoscaling. However, as none of our supported events has included `labels`, you had to configure an HRA to only match relevant `check_run` events. It wasn't trivial.

In contrast, a `workflow_job` event payload contains `labels` of runners requested. `actions-runner-controller` is able to automatically decide which HRA to scale by filtering the corresponding RunnerDeployment by `labels` included in the webhook payload. So all you need to use webhook-based autoscale will be to enable `workflow_job` on GitHub and expose actions-runner-controller's webhook server to the internet.

Note that the current implementation of `workflow_job` support works in two ways, increment, and decrement. An increment happens when the webhook server receives` workflow_job` of `queued` status. A decrement happens when it receives `workflow_job` of `completed` status. The latter is used to make scaling-down faster so that you waste money less than before. You still don't suffer from flapping, as a scale-down is still subject to `scaleDownDelaySecondsAfterScaleOut `.

Please read the section `Example 3: Scale on each `workflow_job` event` in the updated version of our README for more information on its usage.
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apiVersion: actions.summerwind.dev/v1alpha1
kind: RunnerSet
metadata:
name: example-runnerset
spec:
# MANDATORY because it is based on StatefulSet: Results in a below error when omitted:
# missing required field "selector" in dev.summerwind.actions.v1alpha1.RunnerSet.spec
selector:
matchLabels:
app: example-runnerset
# MANDATORY because it is based on StatefulSet: Results in a below error when omitted:
# missing required field "serviceName" in dev.summerwind.actions.v1alpha1.RunnerSet.spec]
serviceName: example-runnerset
#replicas: 1
# From my limited testing, `ephemeral: true` is more reliable.
# Seomtimes, updating already deployed runners from `ephemeral: false` to `ephemeral: true` seems to
# result in queued jobs hanging forever.
ephemeral: ${TEST_EPHEMERAL}
repository: ${TEST_REPO}
#
# Custom runner image
#
image: ${RUNNER_NAME}:${RUNNER_TAG}
#
# dockerd within runner container
#
## Replace `mumoshu/actions-runner-dind:dev` with your dind image
#dockerdWithinRunnerContainer: true
#
# Set the MTU used by dockerd-managed network interfaces (including docker-build-ubuntu)
#
#dockerMTU: 1450
#Runner group
# labels:
# - "mylabel 1"
# - "mylabel 2"
labels:
- "${RUNNER_LABEL}"
#
# Non-standard working directory
#
# workDir: "/"
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: example-runnerset
spec:
containers:
- name: runner
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
env:
- name: RUNNER_FEATURE_FLAG_EPHEMERAL
value: "${RUNNER_FEATURE_FLAG_EPHEMERAL}"
#- name: docker
# #image: mumoshu/actions-runner-dind:dev