Docker images

When updates will be applied to images

• A package that will be required for action(s) to work properly might be added/removed/changed
• Any maintenance that will be required due to:
  • GitHub Container Registry
  • GitHub Actions
  • Act
• Performance and/or disk space improvements

Images available

• ChristopherHX/runner-image-blobs GitHub Actions Hosted runner image copy containing almost all possible tools (image is extremely big, 20GB compressed, ~60GB extracted)

  • A tar backup of the GitHub Hosted Runners are uploaded once a week via a custom docker image upload script in runner-image-blobs repository
  • Synced by cron job .github/workflows/copy-full-image.yml to the following tags
  • You can verify if the Image is still updated regulary by inspecting the dates in docker buildx imagetools inspect catthehacker/ubuntu:full-latest --format "{{ json . }}"
    • The friendly tag name version in the output can be looked up here https://github.com/actions/runner-images/releases to find out more about the sources
  • available tags are
    • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:full-latest (aka full-22.04)
    • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:full-24.04 (beta image)
    • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:full-22.04
    • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:full-20.04 (Updated as long ubuntu-20.04 free public GitHub Hosted Runners are available)

• /linux/ubuntu/act - image used in github.com/nektos/act as medium size image retaining compatibility with most actions while maintaining small size

  • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:act-20.04
  • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:act-22.04
  • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest

• /linux/ubuntu/runner - ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:act-* but with runner as user instead of root

  • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:runner-20.04
  • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:runner-22.04
  • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:runner-latest

• /linux/ubuntu/js - ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:act-* but with js tools installed (yarn, nvm, node v16/v18, pnpm, grunt, etc.)

  • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:js-20.04
  • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:js-22.04
  • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:js-latest

• /linux/ubuntu/rust - ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:act-* but with rust tools installed (rustfmt, clippy, cbindgen, etc.)

  • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:rust-20.04
  • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:rust-22.04
  • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:rust-latest

• /linux/ubuntu/pwsh - ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:act-* but with pwsh tools and modules installed

  • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:pwsh-20.04
  • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:pwsh-22.04
  • ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:pwsh-latest

ubuntu-18.04 has been deprecated and images for that environment will not be updated anymore

Repository contains parts of actions/virtual-environments which is licenced under "MIT License"