actions/runner-images on Hacker News

…fork of the Azure Pipelines Agent." https://docs.github.com/en/actions/concepts/runners/github-h... https://github.com/actions/runner-images#about A few threads where blips have affected both services.…

comment by vyrotek · 2026-05-26 · in Incident with Actions and Pages

…- Ubuntu: sudo -u some-user unexpectedly ends up with environment variables for the runner [2] 1: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/13048 2: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/13049

comment by rsyring · 2026-02-06 · in GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams

…SDK pre-installed, and there are no updated, publicly available builds for the runner-images: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/176

comment by maxloh · 2026-01-12 · in Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions

if it's useful, they do actually have arm workers now for linux and mac: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/tree/main?tab=readm...

comment by llimllib · 2025-12-16 · in Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

…consumes 100% CPU [1]. The problem is known to them since May but not fixed half a year later. [1] https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/13358

comment by stabbles · 2025-11-27 · in Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg

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GitHub Actions broke caching on macOS

story by twp · 2025-11-23 · 0 comments

…in both though[3]. [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/dotnet/core/install/linux-... [2]: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/12697 [3]: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/pull/13295

comment by bouke · 2025-11-12 · in .NET 10

…not allow to change anything for the prepare stage - and it's a known issue for 2 years at least... https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/1445#issueco... https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/76636

comment by tom1337 · 2025-10-20 · in Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption

…egister.com/2023/06/28/microsofts_github_gmp... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36380325 [3] https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/7901

comment by TuxSH · 2025-10-09 · in Why Self-Host?

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GitHub pins all Rust users to an old version, claiming a breaking change

story by shadaj · 2025-09-22 · 0 comments

https://github.com/actions/runner-images

comment by esafak · 2025-05-19 · in Run GitHub Actions locally

…do appreciate that someone at Github did actually look at my issue, they totally missed the point. https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/11786 Are there any reasonable alternatives for a really tiny FOSS project?

comment by kayson · 2025-03-28 · in Disk I/O bottlenecks in GitHub Actions

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Windows Server 2025 Will Be Generally Available in GitHub Actions from April

story by keepamovin · 2025-03-18 · 0 comments

…limits. Very hard to find anything definitive still left on the web. This is all I could find... https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/1445#issueco... https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/1445#issueco...

comment by everfrustrated · 2025-02-21 · in Docker limits unauthenticated pulls to 10/HR/IP from Docker Hub, from March 1

…closest I've ever found to a real acknowledgement is this issue with relation to GitHub Actions: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/8755

comment by jchw · 2025-01-22 · in Guided by the beauty of our test suite

…in Windows Server 2022, and hence isn't available for use by the GitHub Agent runner images.) See: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/7320 and https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/8380 I love the various associated…

comment by jiggawatts · 2025-01-21 · in Guided by the beauty of our test suite

When I want to know whether something is pre installed on gh actions, I go to https://github.com/actions/runner-images , click through to the image we use, and Ctrl+F for the software I’m interested in. If it’s installed, it will tell me…

comment by dave4420 · 2024-10-24 · in Using Yq in GitHub Actions

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GitHub Actions: latest is now Ubuntu 24.10, including breaking changes

story by schaum · 2024-10-14 · 0 comments

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Windows runners are consistently slow compared to Linux and macOS

story by marcodiego · 2024-10-09 · 0 comments

i always think to myself how embarassing this must be https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/7320

comment by almostgotcaught · 2024-10-09 · in Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake

…out the latest state of virtualization in GHA and it looks like GH shipped it for all linux runners https://github.com/actions/runner-images/discussions/7191#di... - so it might be possible to get that PR working now.

comment by spion · 2024-08-11 · in Adbfs-rootless – Mount Android phones on Linux with adb. No root required

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GitHub Actions are randomly failing

story by newman314 · 2024-05-30 · 0 comments

…something to deploy yourself! You can also build an AMI from GitHub's upstream image definition ( https://github.com/actions/runner-images/tree/main/images/ub... ) if you'd like it to match what's available in GitHub-hosted Actions. With…

comment by jacobwg · 2024-04-04 · in Show HN: Managed GitHub Actions Runners for AWS

…solutions now though like netbooting the AMI. That'll be a nice blog post someday I think. [0] https://github.com/actions/runner-images/tree/main/images/ub...

comment by jacobwg · 2024-04-04 · in Show HN: Managed GitHub Actions Runners for AWS

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GitHub switched to Docker Compose v2, action needed

story by schaum · 2024-04-03 · 2 comments

…automatically removed. And yes we manage the AMI that the runner uses. We try out best to follow https://github.com/actions/runner-images and will automate this process very soon so it's always up-to-date. Edit: formatting

comment by xjia · 2024-02-22 · in Show HN: DimeRun v2 – Run GitHub Actions on AWS EC2

…/bin/bash or any other popular entrypoint, or even libc itself, with a malware payload). [1] https://github.com/actions/runner-images/tree/main/images/ub...

comment by mschuster91 · 2024-01-15 · in A supply chain attack on PyTorch

…with the ability to modify Aliyun's CDN in China could have carried out a pretty nasty attack. https://github.com/actions/runner-images/commit/6a9890362738... Now it's just anyone with write access to Aliyun's repository. :) (p.s. GitHub…

comment by adnanthekhan · 2024-01-14 · in A supply chain attack on PyTorch

…runners for people who don't have the time/willingness to troubleshoot low-level infra issues. [0]: https://github.com/actions/runner-images [1]: https://dime.run

comment by xjia · 2023-12-09 · in Terraform module for scalable GitHub action runners on AWS

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Apple Silicon (M1) powered macOS runners are now available in public beta

story by delduca · 2023-10-02 · 5 comments

Reminds me: Still waiting for native ARM support on GitHub Actions https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/5631

comment by therealmarv · 2023-09-26 · in macOS Containers v0.0.1

…runner because of Harden-Runner because these services made unnecessary outbound calls. https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/4867

comment by varunsharma07 · 2023-01-25 · in Show HN: Protect Your CI/CD from SolarWinds-Type Attacks with This Agent

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Ask HN: Why is the first command invocation on GitHub Actions Windows image slow

story by ofek · 2022-12-12 · 1 comment

…runners to be updated with Python 3.11 (deployment next week - they deploy image updates weekly). https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/6459

comment by verst · 2022-10-26 · in Python 3.11 is faster than 3.8

…so you have your „reproducibility“ again, as everything is inside the images as the hosted ones: https://github.com/actions/runner-images

comment by tejado · 2022-09-28 · in GitHub breaks homebrew in GitHub Actions with only 5 days' notice

…chose to include a huge amount of software by default in their runners. Just look at this list: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/li... This means that you are able to run a ton of tools without any explicit setup…

comment by phiresky · 2022-09-27 · in GitHub breaks homebrew in GitHub Actions with only 5 days' notice

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GitHub breaks homebrew in GitHub Actions with only 5 days' notice

story by throwawaymlkas · 2022-09-27 · 6 comments

…if you want to see why. it's difficult keeping the massive packer template they use in good shape. https://github.com/actions/runner-images/ I rely on that repo to build my own images and it is a frequent cause of failed builds. I'm going…

comment by naikrovek · 2022-09-27 · in GitHub Actions Pitfalls

…at the ticket for this issue to see the surprisingly long list of projects that are affected. (See: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/2187 )

comment by porcoda · 2022-06-10 · in Ask HN: How are you dealing with the M1/ARM migration?

…comment due to some "NDA" -- would be easy to state if they went the license route so... [0]: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/1814 [1]: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/2604

comment by hardwaresofton · 2022-02-13 · in Running macOS in a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon Macs

Still not on GitHub Actions though: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/2187

comment by xvilka · 2021-12-03 · in Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances

…and not Amazon, were able to pull this off. That subject is sensitive and reportedly under NDA. https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/2604#...

comment by withinrafael · 2021-12-02 · in Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances

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How does the macOS runner comply with the macOS 11 license agreement?

story by easton · 2021-11-15 · 1 comment

…tmate action[3], which lets you debug your CI run with SSH. [1] https://github.com/nektos/act [2] https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments [3] https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate

comment by thinkafterbef · 2021-10-13 · in We want to fix GitHub Actions

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Ubuntu 16.04 virtual environment removed from GitHub CI

story by app4soft · 2021-09-24 · 0 comments

Not yet, it's bottlenecking a lot of progress waiting to be made. https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/2187

comment by artursapek · 2021-08-17 · in Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

…default. GitHub's response to "your default configuration is broken" was basically "welp, NOMFP": https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/3410

comment by phab · 2021-06-17 · in Microsoft Ubuntu repositories are broken because of space issues

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Archlinux: Latest got broken on GitHub Actions

story by todsacerdoti · 2021-02-15 · 0 comments

GitHub has been doling out tiny macOS runners in virtual machines for a bit now [1] (seemingly in violation of macOS SLA), and these were hosted on MacStadium [2]! So for MacStadium to come out and pretend they were following the rules the…

comment by withinrafael · 2020-12-01 · in Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

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GitHub Actions VMs updated to Node 14 with short notice

story by warpech · 2020-11-06 · 1 comment