The Kubernetes backend copies actions and workspaces into job containers with `tar` over `pods/exec`, so every byte goes through the API server. On managed clusters that often sits in other zones than the nodes, so each byte can cross zones twice, and the copies load the API server.
With `kubernetes.transfer.mode: auto` or `direct`, an init container copies `gitea-runner` into the job pod, and the job container fetches directories and copies of 64 KiB or more gzipped from the runner over the pod network. `auto` falls back to the API server for a job pod that cannot reach the runner, `direct` fails the job.
Copies can hold secrets, so each is served once, over TLS 1.3 pinned to a certificate the runner generates, only to the job pod's IPs.
Copying setup-go@v5, cache@v4, setup-java@v4 and build-push-action@v6 sends 11.6 MB through the API server on main and 532 B with this PR.
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The Kubernetes backend copies actions and other files into the job container with `tar` over `pods/exec`, so the data goes through the API server, which on managed clusters often sits in other zones than the nodes (each copied byte then crosses zones twice). Actions are megabytes of JavaScript bundles that gzip about fivefold:
| Action | tar | gzip |
|---|---|---|
| actions/setup-go@v5 | 8.0 MB | 1.5 MB |
| actions/cache@v4 | 11.6 MB | 2.0 MB |
| actions/setup-java@v4 | 15.3 MB | 2.5 MB |
| docker/build-push-action@v6 | 12.9 MB | 3.0 MB |
The startup probe now also reports whether the job container has `gzip`. If it does, `CopyDir` and copies of 64 KiB or more are gzipped at `BestSpeed` and extracted with `gzip -dc | tar -xf -`. Smaller copies (run scripts, file command files) stay uncompressed, where gzip would save next to nothing and cost a process in the pod. Images without `gzip` keep the plain tar stream, so the image requirements do not change.
This is independent of #1354 and gets most of its traffic saving with no new moving parts.
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Without a docker daemon six `act/runner` tests failed instead of passing. A dry run still created and removed job networks, the job teardown dropped the dry-run flag along with every other context value, and the container mocks asked the daemon for the runner arch.
This also speeds up the tests and CI without dropping assertions. Most of the time went to git and docker round trips, which are now pinned, batched or coalesced, and the dind and e2e steps cache or overlap more of their setup. On CI, `act/runner` went from 77s to 55s and `test-dind` from 108s to 55s. Locally, `act/runner` without docker went from 53s to 7s.
Split out of https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1348, which adds Windows CI on top. The go cache changes moved to https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1350.
Written by Claude Code.
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A new node can run pods before its kubelet has a serving certificate, so the first exec into the job container fails with `error dialing backend: remote error: tls: internal error` and the job fails during setup.
That exec only reads the arch and PATH, so it now retries for up to a minute unless the API server rejects it (4xx) or the command ran.
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On Kubernetes a service is reached by its id made a DNS label, so some service ids might become unreachable. For example, the `devstoreaccount1.azurite.local` service of Gitea's [MSSQL tests](2fe74d3cdd/.github/workflows/pull-db-tests.yml (L229)) is only in the pod's hosts as `devstoreaccount1-azurite-local`, while the tests connect to the id as written. Container names must be DNS labels, but `hostAliases` accepts DNS subdomains, so an id that is one is now added there too, and to `no_proxy`, as on Docker where a service is reached by its id.
The warning for a service not reachable by its id now also covers ids that differ only in case, as Kubernetes hostnames are lowercase.
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The Kubernetes backend extracted CopyDir archives at "/" with entries like
"var/run/act/actions/<sha>/...". Ubuntu's patched tar refuses to extract
through an absolute symlink, failing with "Invalid cross-device link" on
images that link /var/run to /run, so actions never reached the job
container. Extract at the destination with relative entries instead, like
Copy already does.
This is a similar issue to #1128, but for k8s instead of Docker.
I built the image and deployed it to my k8s cluster to verify the fix.
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Adds a Kubernetes backend. A `name:kubernetes://image` label runs the job as one pod through the Kubernetes API, with services as containers of the same pod. Step env is exported by a script sent over exec stdin, keeping it out of the pod spec and process arguments, and service env goes into a per-job Secret. Docker actions and container options are rejected. See `docs/kubernetes.md`.
Operators shape job pods with `kubernetes.pod_template`, with per-label `pod_templates` merged in `runs-on` order and a `$services` entry for service containers. The idle cleanup removes pods and Secrets a runner left behind.
The client calls the Kubernetes API directly and runs step commands over `coder/websocket` (same dependency used in gitea) instead of pulling in the heavyweight `kubernetes/client-go`. Includes an e2e test against k3s.
Replaces: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1000
Fixes: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/31
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