Update GitHub Actions runner selection (#24537)

bernd · web-flow · commit 5ad52b145a30 · 2025-12-15T19:14:41.000+01:00
* Update GitHub Actions runner selection

- Use RunsOn runners for our Open build
- Add RunsOn config file
- Switch to ubuntu-slim for small and fast jobs

* Use runs-on.yml file in graylog-project-internal instead

* Fix typo

* Add Node.JS memory settings
diff --git a/.github/runs-on.yml b/.github/runs-on.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# See https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog-project-internal/blob/main/.github/runs-on.yml
+# for the shared configuration file.
+_extends: "graylog-project-internal"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ env:
 jobs:
   build-artifacts:
     name: "Artifacts"
-    runs-on: "${{ vars.RUNNER_4_CORE }}"
+    runs-on: "runs-on=${{ github.run_id }}-build-artifacts/runner=ubuntu-4-core"
 
     steps:
       - uses: "actions/checkout@v5"
@@ -48,10 +48,12 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: "Build with Maven"
         run: "./mvnw -Pedantic clean -Dspotbugs.skip -DskipTests package javadoc:javadoc"
+        env:
+          NODE_OPTIONS: "--max-old-space-size=8192"
 
   frontend-tests:
     name: "Frontend Tests"
-    runs-on: "${{ vars.RUNNER_4_CORE }}"
+    runs-on: "runs-on=${{ github.run_id }}-frontend-tests/runner=ubuntu-4-core"
 
     steps:
       - uses: "actions/checkout@v5"
@@ -64,10 +66,12 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: "Build with Maven"
         run: "./mvnw -Pedantic -Dspotbugs.skip -Dmaven.test.skip -Dskip.datanode -Dcyclonedx.skip clean test"
+        env:
+          NODE_OPTIONS: "--max-old-space-size=8192"
 
   backend-tests:
     name: "Backend Tests"
-    runs-on: "${{ vars.RUNNER_4_CORE }}"
+    runs-on: "runs-on=${{ github.run_id }}-backend-tests/runner=ubuntu-4-core"
 
     steps:
       - uses: "actions/checkout@v5"
@@ -83,7 +87,7 @@ jobs:
 
   full-backend-tests:
     name: "Full Backend Tests"
-    runs-on: "${{ vars.RUNNER_4_CORE }}"
+    runs-on: "runs-on=${{ github.run_id }}-full-backend-tests/runner=ubuntu-4-core"
 
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
@@ -121,3 +125,5 @@ jobs:
           -Dtest.integration.search-server.distribution=${{ matrix.service.search-server-distribution || '' }}
           -Dtest.integration.search-server.version=${{ matrix.service.search-server-version || '' }}
           -Dtest.integration.mongodb.version=${{ matrix.service.mongodb-version || '' }}
+        env:
+          NODE_OPTIONS: "--max-old-space-size=8192"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/changelog.yml b/.github/workflows/changelog.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   test:
     name: "Check Changelog presence"
-    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-slim"
 
     steps:
       - uses: "Graylog2/actions/changelog-check@main"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/dispatch-main-build.yml b/.github/workflows/dispatch-main-build.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ concurrency:
 jobs:
   dispatchedMainBuild:
     name: Dispatch build
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
 
     steps:
       # TODO remove later
diff --git a/.github/workflows/dispatch-pr-build.yml b/.github/workflows/dispatch-pr-build.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   dispatchedPR:
     name: Dispatch wait and check
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
 
     steps:
       - name: Check if PR edit changed deps string
diff --git a/.github/workflows/no-response.yml b/.github/workflows/no-response.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   noResponse:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
     steps:
       - uses: lee-dohm/no-response@v0.5.0
         with:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/notify-upgrade-notes.yml b/.github/workflows/notify-upgrade-notes.yml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   notify:
-    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-slim"
 
     steps:
       - name: "Send Slack message"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/update-browserslist-db.yml b/.github/workflows/update-browserslist-db.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest 
+    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
     defaults:
       run:
         working-directory: graylog2-web-interface
diff --git a/.github/workflows/updating-lockfile.yml b/.github/workflows/updating-lockfile.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
     defaults:
       run:
         working-directory: graylog2-web-interface

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@`
	`1`	`+# See https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog-project-internal/blob/main/.github/runs-on.yml`
	`2`	`+# for the shared configuration file.`
	`3`	`+_extends: "graylog-project-internal"`