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Make installation of github actions runner repeatable on ubuntu

I want to automate the process of installing GitHub Actions runner on ubuntu machines on EC2 instances.

The instructions on github are as follows:

# Create a folder
$ mkdir actions-runner && cd actions-runner
# Download the latest runner package
$ curl -o actions-runner-linux-x64-2.303.0.tar.gz -L https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v2.303.0/actions-runner-linux-x64-2.303.0.tar.gz
# Optional: Validate the hash
$ echo "e4a9fb7269c1a156eb5d5369232d0cd62e06bec2fd2b321600e85ac914a9cc73  actions-runner-linux-x64-2.303.0.tar.gz" | shasum -a 256 -c
# Extract the installer
$ tar xzf ./actions-runner-linux-x64-2.303.0.tar.gz
# Create the runner and start the configuration experience
$ ./config.sh --url https://github.com/MyOrg/MyRepo --token [REDACTED]
# Last step, run it!
$ ./run.sh

However the token is different each time I check these instructions.

How can I create a user-data like section (or a launch template for my autoscaling group) in a repeatable fashion so that I don’t have to check for a new token each time?

TL;DR: If I destroy the EC2 instance and recreate it, will the same token apply for registering the machine as a runner?

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    I found out that this works

    ./config.sh --unattended --url '${github_repo_url}' --pat '"$GITHUB_PAT"' --name '${name}' --labels '${labels}' --replace

    The GITHUB_PAT needs to be a personall access token with repo scope at least.


  2. 0

    Are you able to figure this out? I am trying to find the same thing. In my case the EC2 instance is in AutoScaling group.

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