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bircni 78610b01f6 docs: recommend DinD for container jobs (#1258)
Make Docker-in-Docker the recommended and first-shown setup. Mounting the host's Docker socket gives every job root-equivalent access to the host, while DinD gives jobs their own daemon. The default `latest` tag is unchanged.

Also shorten the image flavour docs to what users need to pick an image, and correct that `dind-rootless` needs `--privileged` too.

Closes https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/issues/1227

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Co-authored-by: silverwind <2021+silverwind@noreply.gitea.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-on: https://gitea.com/gitea/runner/pulls/1258
Reviewed-by: silverwind <2021+silverwind@noreply.gitea.com>
Co-authored-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
2026-09-30 18:27:11 +00:00
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Running gitea-runner using docker-compose

This uses the recommended Docker-in-Docker image, see image flavours.

...
  gitea:
    image: gitea/gitea
    ...
    healthcheck:
      # checks availability of Gitea's front-end with curl
      test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "<instance_url>"]
      interval: 10s
      retries: 3
      start_period: 30s
      timeout: 10s
    environment:
      # GITEA_RUNNER_REGISTRATION_TOKEN can be used to set a global runner registration token.
      # The Gitea version must be v1.23 or higher.
      # It's also possible to use GITEA_RUNNER_REGISTRATION_TOKEN_FILE to pass the location.
      # - GITEA_RUNNER_REGISTRATION_TOKEN=<user-defined registration token>

  runner:
    image: gitea/runner:latest-dind
    restart: always
    privileged: true
    depends_on:
      gitea:
        # required so runner can attach to gitea, see "healthcheck"
        condition: service_healthy
        restart: true
    volumes:
      - ./data/runner:/data
    environment:
      - GITEA_INSTANCE_URL=<instance url>
      # When using Docker Secrets, it's also possible to use
      # GITEA_RUNNER_REGISTRATION_TOKEN_FILE to pass the location.
      # The env var takes precedence.
      # Needed only for the first start.
      - GITEA_RUNNER_REGISTRATION_TOKEN=<registration token>

Running gitea-runner using rootless Docker-in-Docker

On AppArmor hosts such as Ubuntu and Debian, security_opt is needed for the daemon to start. Docker's docker-ce-rootless-extras package provides the rootlesskit profile.

...
  runner:
    image: gitea/runner:latest-dind-rootless
    restart: always
    privileged: true
    security_opt:
      - apparmor=rootlesskit
    depends_on:
      gitea:
        condition: service_healthy
        restart: true
    volumes:
      - ./data/runner:/data
    environment:
      - GITEA_INSTANCE_URL=<instance url>
      - DOCKER_HOST=unix:///var/run/user/1000/docker.sock
      # Use slirp4netns instead of vpnkit for significantly better network throughput.
      - DOCKERD_ROOTLESS_ROOTLESSKIT_NET=slirp4netns
      - DOCKERD_ROOTLESS_ROOTLESSKIT_MTU=65520
      # When using Docker Secrets, it's also possible to use
      # GITEA_RUNNER_REGISTRATION_TOKEN_FILE to pass the location.
      # The env var takes precedence.
      # Needed only for the first start.
      - GITEA_RUNNER_REGISTRATION_TOKEN=<registration token>