actions / actions/actions-runner-controller

Ability to save diagnostic logs from the failed runner

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enhancement
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Go
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Description

To better investigate/collaborate on issues like #342 and https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/971, we'd better have a controller feature that allows us to save diagnostic logs from runners.

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading issues #342 and #971 to understand the diagnostic-log failures this feature should address, then inspect the controller entry points that manage runners. Define how logs from a failed runner would be captured and saved, and verify the behavior with a failed-runner scenario.

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Assessment

Tech stack
github-actions, go, kubernetes
Domain
ci-cd, devops, infrastructure
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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