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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- Keep `GITHUB_ENV`, `GITHUB_OUTPUT`, `GITHUB_STATE` and `GITHUB_PATH` when a job times out or is cancelled, so post steps still get their state
- Retry the startup Declare while Gitea is unreachable instead of exiting, still failing fast on rejected registrations, auth and misconfiguration
- Reuse a local image when a platform variant such as `linux/arm/v7` is requested instead of pulling again
- Read `PATH` from the created job container so cross-architecture jobs get tool paths for the right architecture
- Extract action copies relative to the act volume so they never cross an image's `/var/run` symlink, which rootless Podman rejects
- Keep the job container's entrypoint when container options set `--entrypoint`, warning instead of appending it to the keep-alive command
- Lock action cache entries across runner processes that share a cache directory
- `exec`: omit `GITHUB_SERVER_URL` and `GITHUB_API_URL` without `--gitea-instance` instead of exporting a bare `https://`, and read owner and repository from any origin remote
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Fixes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1263
- Wait for dockerd without a check limit. s6 readiness gave up after 7 checks, so the runner never started on slow hosts, also seen in https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/712, https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/652 and https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/758.
- Let the runner run the docker service's readiness check itself instead of reading s6 status, which can be missing at startup or stale after an unclean stop.
- Exit the container with the first failing service's exit code instead of always 0, so `restart: on-failure` works. A requested stop still exits 0.
- Stop the runner before dockerd, so running jobs can finish within `shutdown_timeout`. The stop grace period has to cover that drain.
- Check the supervision exit codes in `make test-dind`.
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Podman creates a missing bind source instead of rejecting it, so the Docker proxy probe passed even when the daemon could not see the runner's files. Jobs of Podman runners in a container got an empty directory at `/var/run/docker.sock` (https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1193#issuecomment-1700501).
The probe now binds the directory and stats its marker through the created container. A runner in a container stats the marker through its own container, so it no longer creates probe containers, which cost up to 2s per job. `make test-dind TARGET=podman` runs the probe against Podman in CI.
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Containers a job starts through its Docker socket, for example `docker run -v "$PWD:/src"`, `./data:/data` in docker compose, or actions like dockerfile-roast, can now bind-mount the workspace and other paths the job sees, as on a host, without `bind_workdir`.
The per-job Docker proxy rewrites container and volume create requests. A bind source, or the device of a `local` volume with `o: bind`, that lies under one of the job container's mounts is pointed at that mount's path on the daemon, read from inspecting the job container. Paths that already name a daemon path, like `GITEA_DOCKER_WORKSPACE`, and paths outside the job's mounts pass through unchanged.
The proxy now also starts when the runner runs in a container given the host's Docker socket, by placing its socket in the runner's working directory, and in rootless dind, by granting the daemon socket's group through an ACL.
Fixes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1219
Fixes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1193
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Cache v2 makes the cache server the `ACTIONS_RESULTS_URL` origin, so artifact calls arrived there and were proxied on to Gitea, failing whenever it could not reach the instance.
- Artifact calls are answered with a redirect, so the cache server opens no connection to Gitea. A scheme change or an untrusted instance is still proxied, but there the cache server is the runner itself, which already reaches Gitea.
- Failures answer in twirp, not an empty `502` that clients report as `Unexpected end of JSON input`.
- `cache.v2: false` really points artifacts at Gitea now.
- Cache reservations are bound to the job that made them, so two jobs saving one key cannot commit against each other's upload, and a retry after a lost answer no longer fails a saved entry.
- The toolkit patch, which edits the GitHub-host check out of an action's bundle, was left in the shared checkout where a job running with `runner.patch_actions: false` could inherit it. It is put back after the job's copy.
- `exec` names an origin for the cache v2 it advertises, and masks its runtime token.
Behaviour changes: `no_proxy` no longer exempts `cache.external_server`, and `cache.enabled: false` also stops external registration.
Fixes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1208
Fixes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1211
Assisted by Claude (Opus 5).
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1216
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Fixes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1213
Fix the DooD regression that mounts `/var/run/docker.sock` as a directory. Keep the Docker proxy available through job and post steps. Clean stale resources before opening it, then remove containers before their networks and volumes during teardown.
Use a unique filesystem probe and preserve socket ownership. Fall back to direct access when proxying is unsupported. Preserve exec output and clean up active streams and failed starts.
Add a real Docker job test for mounted socket access, post steps and resource cleanup.
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Running the full suite under `-race` (dropping `-short`) exposed pre-existing data races in parallel matrix-job execution, fixed by not sharing mutable state across combinations:
- `containerDaemonSocket()`/`validVolumes()` derive per-job values instead of mutating shared `Config`
- `getWorkflowSecrets` builds a fresh map, `rc.steps()` clones each step, and go-git workdir access is serialized
- every write to a shared `Job`'s result/outputs runs under a per-`Job` lock, each combo interpolating outputs from a pristine snapshot (last wins, as on GitHub)
### Test suite
- capability gates (docker / network / host-tools / Linux) replace the `-short` skips, and the suite runs offline via local fixtures (the artifact flow uses an in-process loopback server, only the docker-action force-pull needs the network)
- drops redundant tests, adds a regression test for https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/981 and a docker-in-docker harness (`make test-dind`)
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This PR was written with the help of Claude Opus 4.7
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/994
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