actions / actions/runner

Support for custom executors

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Description

Gitlab has a nice feature where you can easily create a custom executor, it's documented here https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/custom.html.

This allows one to easily support custom container runtimes such as podman, plain runc, singularity, or whatever container runtime you can think of.

At its core, gitlab gives you a script.sh with all the commands for a job, and you are supposed to make it execute somewhere.

Is such a feature possible with github as well? It would be incredibly useful for clusters where you would have e.g. slurm + rootless containers instead of kubernetes/docker.

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Research direction

Start with the linked GitLab custom-executor documentation and compare its model with the GitHub Actions runner described by this repository. No repository file, test, or entry point is named; done would require a concrete scope for supporting Slurm with rootless or other custom runtimes, plus a way to validate that design.

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Assessment

Tech stack
docker, github, 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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