Since these self hosted-runners are supposed to be a more performant alternative to the GitHub-provided runners, the bare minimum requirements are GitHub's own Linux runner hardware specification as well as guaranteed uptime.
As for recommended requirements, listed below are the specifications of the current SerenityOS runners, roughly matching these would eventually make running performance-regression related tests on these easier. (But this is not a hard requirement, as GitHub offers the ability to selectively choose which self-hosted runners run which workflow)
- Ryzen 5 3600 - 12 cores w/ KVM support
- 64GB of RAM
- 512GB of SSD space
These instructions assume the OS installed is Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy), so they might not be compatible with other Linux flavours.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-server/server-backports
wget -O - https://apt.llvm.org/llvm-snapshot.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://apt.llvm.org/jammy/ llvm-toolchain-jammy-16 main'
apt update
apt install git build-essential make cmake clang-format-16 gcc-13 g++-13 libstdc++-13-dev libgmp-dev ccache libmpfr-dev libmpc-dev ninja-build e2fsprogs qemu-utils qemu-system-i386 wabt
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-13 100 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-13
adduser runner
runner ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
adduser runner kvm
mkdir actions-runner && cd actions-runner
Download the latest version of actions-runner-linux-x64 from https://github.com/rust-lang/gha-runner/releases
curl -o actions-runner-linux-x64-X.X.X.tar.gz -L https://github.com/rust-lang/gha-runner/releases/download/vX.X.X-rust1/actions-runner-linux-x64-X.X.X-rust1.tar.gz
tar xzf ./actions-runner-linux-x64-X.X.X.tar.gz
./config.sh --url https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird --token INSERT_SECRET_TOKEN_HERE
RUST_WHITELISTED_EVENT_NAME=push
MAX_RUNNER_THREADS=XXX
If you are setting up multiple runners on the same machine, this setting can be used to divvy up the cores, if you're only setting up one runner, this can just be set to the server's core count
sudo ./svc.sh install
sudo ./svc.sh start