Global

NOTE: this repo is meant to be used for me only. if you somehow stumbled on this, be sure to change some stuff in runglobal.yml.

This repository transforms GitHub Actions into a (12 * 2)/(3.5 * 2) s36v36. It is originally a fork of Docker-VNC, but I got too addicted into this and turned it into another project with a lot more improvements.

How It Works

During the first runtime, a data directory named globalData is created in /mnt/, which is Azure's temporary storage partition. This partition, by default is used for storing the swap file, but also offers a lot of space for storing large files.

Now here's where my stuff comes in. The runtime will make a globalData directory in that temporary storage partition. You can store the stuff that you don't want to keep throughout the runtimes inside that folder. But there’s also another folder called toBackup inside globalData. Files in this folder will persist across the runtimes. It also contains these two scripts:

• postinstall.sh – runs after the runtime finishes setting things up.
• postruntime.sh – executes 30 minutes before the runtime stops (which has a maximum limit of 6 hours).

You can configure tasks that you want to start or stop at each runtime.

For the toBackup data bridge, I first archive the folder into the file archive.tar.gz. Then I used serve, which runs on the old runtime's port 5000, then on the new runtime, I used aria2 to download the archive in parallel and finally extract the archive.

And with all of this, I also have Discord Webhook integration so you get notified on new runtimes, and Tail with a Scale set up so you can actually access the runtime.

Why not just use action's cron?

The time is not accurate, which may lead to a downtime gap between each runtime. See https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/52477

Secrets that are NEEDED to set

• WEBHOOK_URL - discord webhook url
• TAILSCALE_KEY - tailscale auth key