Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
173 lines (119 loc) · 5.31 KB

ACTIONS.md

File metadata and controls

173 lines (119 loc) · 5.31 KB
Raw

GitHub Actions setup

Quarkus is built using GitHub Actions, with a mix of hosted and self-hosted runners.

Setting up a new self-hosted runner on Mac M1

Non-root user

GitHub Actions should not run with administrator privileges, so will need to be run in a dedicated account. Make an account for the actions runner. The steps below assume the account has the name githubactions. It's usually easiest to do account creation in the GUI, via a VNC connection. Users are managed in the Users and Groups section of the Settings app.

Grant administrator privileges to the account (we will remove them later).

System utilities

As administrator, install homebrew.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Install build and container utilities:

brew install mvn
brew install gradle
brew install podman

Podman setup

Podman needs some extra configuration to work with test containers and dev services.

Now log in to the account you created to run the actions. As the githubactions user (but with administrator privileges)

PODMAN_VERSION=`podman -v | sed 's/[a-zA-Z ]*//'`
sudo /opt/homebrew/Cellar/podman/$PODMAN_VERSION/bin/podman-mac-helper install

The podman helper install seems to be per-user, but it needs to be done with administrator privileges.

Again as the githubactions user, edit ~/.testcontainers.properties and add the following line: ryuk.container.privileged=true

echo "ryuk.container.privileged=true" >> ~/.testcontainers.properties
podman machine set --rootful
podman machine start

Finally, on ARM, an extra step is required to make AMD64 images work:

podman machine ssh
sudo -i
rpm-ostree install qemu-user-static
systemctl reboot

Now remove administrator privileges from the githubactions user. As with the user creation, it's usually easiest to do this in the GUI.

Rosetta

A fresh install of macOS will not have Rosetta installed, so Intel binaries cannot run. Fix this by running:

softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license

Stand up the actions runner

Download the runner scripts

GitHub provides an installation package of customised runner scripts for each repository. Follow the instructions to install the scripts for the repository to be built.

Choose the default group, a descriptive name, and the default work folder. Add a label macos-arm64-latest. If you forget the label, it will need to be added through the UI.

Cleanup and setup logic

Self-hosted runners do not run on ephemeral hardware, and so workflow runs may need to clean up. We also need to start a podman machine before the job if one is not already running.

To create cleanup and setup scripts and hooks, run:

echo "rm -rf /Users/githubactions/actions-runner/_work" > /Users/githubactions/runner-cleanup.sh
echo "podman machine info | grep Running || podman machine start" >> /Users/githubactions/podman-start.sh
chmod a+x /Users/githubactions/runner-cleanup.sh
echo ACTIONS_RUNNER_HOOK_JOB_COMPLETED=/Users/githubactions/runner-cleanup.sh >> .env
echo ACTIONS_RUNNER_HOOK_JOB_STARTED=/Users/githubactions/podman-start.sh >> .env

In the same script, we also ensure that the podman machine is running before jobs execute.

Start the runner

To test the runner, run

run.sh

Once you're happy the runner is processing builds correctly, it's time to create it as a daemon.

Start the service on reboot

Note that GitHub have scripts for this, but theirs run as LaunchAgents, not LaunchDaemons. LaunchAgents run when a user logs in, and LaunchDaemons run on boot, so the daemon option seems preferable.

As administrator, sudo vi /Library/LaunchDaemons/actions.runner.quarkusio-quarkus.macstadium-m1.plist.

Then add the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>actions.runner.quarkusio-quarkus.macstadium-m1</string>

    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>

    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <true/>
  
    <key>UserName</key>
    <string>githubactions</string>

    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
     <string>/Users/githubactions/actions-runner/runsvc.sh</string>
    </array>

    <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
    <string>/Users/githubactions/actions-runner</string>

    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/github.runner.plist.stdout</string>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/tmp/github.runner.plist.stderr</string>

    <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
    <dict>
      <key>ACTIONS_RUNNER_SVC</key>
      <string>1</string>
    </dict>
    <key>ProcessType</key>
    <string>Interactive</string>
    <key>SessionCreate</key>
    <true/>
  </dict>
</plist>

Finally, run

sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/actions.runner.quarkusio-quarkus.macstadium-m1.plist

You can check the logs in /tmp/github.runner.plist.stdout to confirm everything is working.