has anyone used dagger to run github self hosted runners ?

[vivid oxide]

I am using github runners and facing portability between nixos, windows and mac using github provided self hosted runners. I was hoping it would be possible to run the github self hosted container as a dagger service using dagger api. This way i can start many of them on a single host using a dagger. I know i can run them on k8s but dont need that complexity for now

Has anyone done this yet ?

p.s this issue seems similar but not really what iam after https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/4513

[jolly oasis]

@vivid oxide that is next on my list 🙂 I've been meaning to do this, but didn't get around to it.

Note that @unkempt widget did a lot of work in this direction with GALE: (Github Actions Local Executor) which runs on Dagger. It has a slightly different objective (run individual GHA workflows as part of a Dagger pipeline) but you do need to a Daggerized GHA runner for that...

[unkempt widget]

This is reminder for me to bump GALE to new dagger version. It is 0.9.x at the moment due to breaking changes.

[vivid oxide]

i am actually trying this now and i am seeing permission denied when i run the docker client from inside the container. i am looking at gale to see how you are passing the socket from the host

[unkempt widget]

the gale using old version of dagger which has host() access. It was able to access docker socket from host directly by default. But now we need to pass it a argument

i'm too busy these days, can't find time to return and restructure the project