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Does GitHub Actions (cloud) allow running of ARM based instances? #25319
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When we run code online for testing with CI/CD, is there an option to make it so that our code can run on Ubuntu on ARM? I’m assuming that all existing OS options are all on x86 |
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I’m not aware of any directly supported options. If you’re willing to build a somewhat complex workflow you could either set up a VM, or (for better performance) cross-compile and then use Qemu user space emulation to test ARM binaries in the runner system. Here’s a tutorial for Debian, it should be possible to adapt that to Ubuntu. |
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Hi @joshuarobs, Glad to see you in Github Community Forum! Thanks. |
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@weide-zhou Thanks for clarification. Also can you run your own self hosted runners with a free account of GitHub or is this only a premium feature? |
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Hi @joshuarobs, Free account can use self-hosted runner. Thanks |
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Would be great to ARM being directly supported by GitHub actions, I've found qemu to be quite slow for 32-bit ARM versions. Don't get me wrong, the fact that qemu can still build a 32-bit ARM image on 64-bit amd64 architecture is incredibly impressive! ARM support from GitHub actions would mean being able to swarm your build compilations, but also generally test how code performs on ARM instances. |
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Yes, I already use Github native ARM runner now: |
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@laoshanxi Is it possible to do the same (using github actions to build native arm on ubuntu) but instead push the image to ec2 instead of pushing to docker? |
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It's quite flexible, you can push to any registry, you can refer to above workflow and this workflow: https://github.com/laoshanxi/app-mesh/blob/main/.github/workflows/publish-github-release.yml |
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Thanks. The above workflow really helped. I was having a problem with the docker/build-push-action@v4 action as well but docker/build-push-action#576 helped me. |
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Looks like Github will be adding ARM based runners in the near future 🥳 🚀 🎊 |
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aha, I wonder if GitHub has plans to provide some free arm runner quotas to open source projects? |
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@Sn0rt, I'm not aware of any official statement regarding this, but I see no reason why not |
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If you can't wait, you can check out RunsOn! |
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Still no public access and no information about free plans and public repositories - Arm-based hosted runners are coming to GitHub Actions! 🚢 #73040. |
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Hi @joshuarobs,
Glad to see you in Github Community Forum!
Yes, the Ubuntu hosted runners provided by Github are all ‘x86_64’ architecture. If you’d like to run code on Ubuntu on ARM, you can create a self-hosted runner, and invoke it in the workflow.
https://help.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/adding-self-hosted-runners.
Thanks.