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GitHub Self-Hosted Runner

Pros

It's cheapp if u use self-hosted runner, well just if u had unused vm instances and want to do an extra work to config

Add Self-hosted runner​

You can follow from the Github Docs

Running the Runner in the Background​

To run the GitHub self-hosted runner in the background, you can use the following script:

nohup ./run.sh &

This script uses nohup to run the run.sh script in the background, allowing it to continue running even after you log out.

Stopping the Runner​

To stop the GitHub self-hosted runner, you can use the following script:

stop_runner.sh
#!/bin/bash

# Find the PIDs of ./run.sh, run-helper.sh, and Runner.Listener processes
run_sh_pid=$(ps aux | grep "[.]\/run.sh" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}')
run_helper_pid=$(ps aux | grep "[/]run-helper.sh" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}')
runner_listener_pid=$(ps aux | grep "[/]Runner.Listener" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}')

# Display results and kill processes if found
echo "Terminating Processes:"

if [ -n "$run_sh_pid" ]; then
  kill -9 "$run_sh_pid"
  echo "  ./run.sh terminated (PID: $run_sh_pid)"
else
  echo "  ./run.sh not running."
fi

if [ -n "$run_helper_pid" ]; then
  kill -9 "$run_helper_pid"
  echo "  run-helper.sh terminated (PID: $run_helper_pid)"
else
  echo "  run-helper.sh not running."
fi

if [ -n "$runner_listener_pid" ]; then
  kill -9 "$runner_listener_pid"
  echo "  Runner.Listener terminated (PID: $runner_listener_pid)"
else
  echo "  Runner.Listener not running."
fi

then execute the script

chmod +x stop_runner.sh
./stop_runner.sh