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# act runner
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Act runner is a runner for Gitea based on [Gitea fork ](https://gitea.com/gitea/act ) of [act ](https://github.com/nektos/act ).
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## Installation
### Prerequisites
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Docker Engine Community version is required. To install Docker CE, follow the official [install instructions ](https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ ).
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### Download pre-built binary
Visit https://dl.gitea.com/act_runner/ and download the right version for your platform.
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### Build from source
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```bash
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make build
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```
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## Quickstart
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### Register
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```bash
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./act_runner register
```
And you will be asked to input:
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1. Gitea instance URL, like `http://192.168.8.8:3000/` . You should use your gitea instance ROOT_URL as the instance argument
and you should not use `localhost` or `127.0.0.1` as instance IP;
2. Runner token, you can get it from `http://192.168.8.8:3000/admin/runners` ;
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3. Runner name, you can just leave it blank;
4. Runner labels, you can just leave it blank.
The process looks like:
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```text
INFO Registering runner, arch=amd64, os=darwin, version=0.1.5.
WARN Runner in user-mode.
INFO Enter the Gitea instance URL (for example, https://gitea.com/):
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http://192.168.8.8:3000/
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INFO Enter the runner token:
fe884e8027dc292970d4e0303fe82b14xxxxxxxx
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INFO Enter the runner name (if set empty, use hostname: Test.local):
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INFO Enter the runner labels, leave blank to use the default labels (comma-separated, for example, ubuntu-20.04:docker://node:16-bullseye,ubuntu-18.04:docker://node:16-buster,linux_arm:host):
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INFO Registering runner, name=Test.local, instance=http://192.168.8.8:3000/, labels=[ubuntu-latest:docker://node:16-bullseye ubuntu-22.04:docker://node:16-bullseye ubuntu-20.04:docker://node:16-bullseye ubuntu-18.04:docker://node:16-buster].
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DEBU Successfully pinged the Gitea instance server
INFO Runner registered successfully.
```
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You can also register with command line arguments.
```bash
./act_runner register --instance http://192.168.8.8:3000 --token < my_runner_token > --no-interactive
```
If the registry succeed, it will run immediately. Next time, you could run the runner directly.
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### Run
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```bash
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./act_runner daemon
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```