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Published inNov 2021
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Priscila Heller
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Priscila Heller

Priscila Heller was born and raised in Brazil, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in Journalism. She moved to the United States in 2011, where she has been living ever since. After working in many different fields, she found a career opportunity in Tech, and went back to school to pursue a degree in Information System Technology. In 2016 Priscila joined GitHub as an Enterprise Support Agent. Over the years she was promoted a few times, and today she is a Senior Manager of Premium Support. Priscila believes in the power of technology, education, and communication. She considers the democratization of knowledge and information to be invaluable for the cultural, social, economic, and scientific development of society and humanity.
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Creating a self-hosted runner

The workflow examples used in previous chapters include jobs that ran on GitHub-hosted runners. As you read in Chapter 2, Deep Diving into GitHub Actions, GitHub-hosted runners can be convenient because GitHub maintains the VMs built to host those runners. However, those virtual environments are built using specific hardware and software.

If your workflows require a different architecture, GitHub-hosted runners will likely not be suitable. For example, if you run jobs that demand higher amounts of memory or processing power, you can build a host machine with those specifications to host the runner application. If your workflow requires tests to be run on operating systems unsupported by GitHub-hosted runners, or if you need to use packages, tools, or software installed in your network, self-hosting the GitHub Actions runner application can be a great option. You can use a host machine that is physical or virtual, hosted on-premises, in containers,...

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Priscila Heller was born and raised in Brazil, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in Journalism. She moved to the United States in 2011, where she has been living ever since. After working in many different fields, she found a career opportunity in Tech, and went back to school to pursue a degree in Information System Technology. In 2016 Priscila joined GitHub as an Enterprise Support Agent. Over the years she was promoted a few times, and today she is a Senior Manager of Premium Support. Priscila believes in the power of technology, education, and communication. She considers the democratization of knowledge and information to be invaluable for the cultural, social, economic, and scientific development of society and humanity.
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