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Kubernetes controller for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners

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Dominant language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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293 open issues indexed

Request: cut a 0.14.3 release for the golang.org/x/crypto CVEs already fixed on main Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4671 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
possible race condition in helm chart v0.14.2 for listener setup Open

bug gha-runner-scale-set needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4661 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 16, 2026
AutoscalingListener recreates crashed listener pod immediately with no backoff Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4656 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2026
AutoscalingRunnerSet deletion wedges forever when githubConfigSecret is gone Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4655 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
EphemeralRunner never fails runner pods stuck Pending on permanent image errors Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4654 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Controller upgrade (0.13.x -> 0.14.x) orphans pre-upgrade AutoscalingListener per scale set; indefinite crashes with RunnerScaleSetNotFoundException Open

bug gha-runner-scale-set needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4629 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 8, 2026
gha-runner-scale-set: the listenerMetrics example in values.yaml reads as a default but adds unbounded job_workflow_ref/name/target labels Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4625 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
gha-runner-scale-set: no working way to protect in-flight jobs from node drain / cloud node auto-upgrade (PDBs non-functional, safe-to-evict doesn't apply to drains) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4618 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Default listener metrics silently drop later metric families under a collector series cap Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4612 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2026
AutoscalingRunnerSet stuck permanently "Outdated" when template.spec references a private container image (change-hash teardown never requeues) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4608 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 22, 2026
UntrustedRoot with self-signed certificate and custom CA signed cert Open

bug gha-runner-scale-set needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4607 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2026
JobCompleted does not clean up a live EphemeralRunner when the runner process fails to exit Open

stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4603 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2026
gha-runner-scale-set 0.14.2: deprecated-runner exit code 7 triggers scale-set delete/recreate loop; unbounded DeleteRunnerScaleSet call can wedge the controller permanently Open

stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4600 · 3 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Aug 11, 2026
AutoscalingRunnerSet remains permanently Outdated after runner template replacement Open

bug gha-runner-scale-set needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4596 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 8, 2026
0.14.2: AutoscalingRunnerSet permanently deadlocks in `Outdated` phase when a config change coincides with an Actions service outage — cleanup completes, phase is never reset, no requeue Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4595 · 27 comments · 24 reactions · Opened Aug 7, 2026
scaleSetLabels in gha-runner-scale-set is not reflecting in github runner Open

bug gha-runner-scale-set needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4579 · 20 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 23, 2026
0.14.2: AutoscalingListener can retain deleted EphemeralRunnerSet after runner template update Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4561 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 10, 2026
Label-based multi-cluster routing cannot achieve HA: static maxRunners and non-load-balanced job dispatch Open

community enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4515 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 2, 2026
Add job metadata labels to runner pods when a job is assigned Open

community enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4485 · 5 comments · 20 reactions · Opened May 5, 2026
Significantly increased runner queue wait times and intermittent listener restarts after upgrading to ARC v0.14.1 Open

bug gha-runner-scale-set

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4470 · 34 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 23, 2026
gha_job_queue_duration_seconds metric missing Open

bug gha-runner-scale-set

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4431 · 1 comment · 6 reactions · Opened Apr 1, 2026
ARC runners did not recover automatically after Github Outage Open

bug gha-runner-scale-set needs triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4396 · 5 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Mar 6, 2026
Ability to select runner region in multi‑region high‑availability setup Open

community enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4385 · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 23, 2026
Patch CVE CVE-2025-55130 in actions-runner-dind image Open

community enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4381 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 18, 2026
gha-runner-scale-set-0.13.1 installation fails with RunnerScaleSetNotFoundException Open

bug gha-runner-scale-set needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4370 · 8 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 6, 2026
Cannot open "Ideas and Feature Requests" ticket in Discussions Open

bug community needs triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 30/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4369 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 6, 2026
Docker daemon fails to start after container forced termination due to stale PID file Open

bug community needs triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4362 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 25, 2026
Grafana Dashboard sample Open

bug gha-runner-scale-set needs triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4348 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 7, 2026
How to apply dynamic labels to workflow job pods Open

community enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4323 · 8 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 21, 2025
Re-run workflow jobs fail to scale runners Open

bug community needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4315 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 14, 2025
Ephemeral Runners seem to get stuck when job is canceled or interrupted Open

bug gha-runner-scale-set needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4307 · 27 comments · 14 reactions · Opened Nov 7, 2025
Gauge metrics missing repository and enterprise label values Open

community enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4304 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 6, 2025
Error: Unable to locate executable file: ssh Open

bug community needs triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4297 · 6 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Oct 31, 2025
Client TLS certificates for AutoscalingRunnerSet Open

community enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4255 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2025
latest runner container images are not latest. Open

bug community needs triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4249 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 16, 2025
Cannot enable webhook driven autoscaling for multiple organizations Open

bug community needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4246 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 10, 2025
Git version used in summerwind/actions-runner-dind image is outdated and vulnerable Open

bug community needs triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4244 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 10, 2025
Allow BUILDKIT_HOST to build Docker Container Actions in Kubernetes mode Open

community enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4236 · 1 comment · 9 reactions · Opened Sep 3, 2025
Autoscaling Runner Sets not scaling down after long jobs Open

bug gha-runner-scale-set needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4193 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 1, 2025
[Security] Improve secureness of dind root containers with "User Namespaces" feature. Open

community enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4189 · 8 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Jul 27, 2025
Add Prometheus Metric for number of jobs waiting for self-hosted runners Open

community enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4187 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 23, 2025
Runners not terminating after job completion – blocked queue due to token expiry (v0.12.1) Open

bug gha-runner-scale-set needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4183 · 12 comments · 15 reactions · Opened Jul 21, 2025
Option to Exclude Specific Strings or Values from Secret Detection Open

community enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4177 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 8, 2025
Support for CRIO Container Runtime Open

community enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4171 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 4, 2025
Support multiple scale sets per listener Open

community enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4169 · 3 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Jul 4, 2025
EphemeralRunner and its pods left stuck Running after runner OOMKILL Open

bug gha-runner-scale-set needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4155 · 14 comments · 21 reactions · Opened Jun 27, 2025
ephemeralrunner should support a TTL Open

community enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4100 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 23, 2025
Add TopologySpreadConstraints to Helm Chart Open

community enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4097 · 1 comment · 5 reactions · Opened May 22, 2025
AutoscalingRunnerSet resource deletion fails indefinitely when a matching secret never existed Open

bug gha-runner-scale-set needs triage

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4093 · Opened May 19, 2025
Enforce Conventional Commits Open

community enhancement needs triage

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/actions-runner-controller#4081 · 1 comment · Opened May 9, 2025

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