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act_runner/examples/systemd/README.md
bircni 8700adc933 feat: config command to edit config files (#1140)
Changing a setting after `generate-config` meant hand-editing YAML, which is awkward in provisioning scripts. `config` now edits an existing file in place:

```bash
./gitea-runner -c config.yaml config set runner.capacity 4
./gitea-runner -c config.yaml config set runner.envs.MY_VAR value
./gitea-runner -c config.yaml config add runner.labels 'ubuntu:docker://node:22'
./gitea-runner -c config.yaml config remove runner.labels 'ubuntu:docker://node:22'
./gitea-runner -c config.yaml config get runner.labels
```

Edits go through the YAML node tree, so comments, key order and the blank lines between top-level sections survive — a test asserts that appending a label to `config.example.yaml` changes nothing but the added line. Keys are resolved by reflecting over the `Config` struct's yaml tags, so an unknown key or a value of the wrong type is rejected before the file is touched. The write is atomic and keeps the file's symlink, owner, mode and line endings.

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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/1140
Reviewed-by: silverwind <2021+silverwind@noreply.gitea.com>
Reviewed-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: bircni <bircni@icloud.com>
2026-08-05 16:48:25 +00:00

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# Running the runner as a systemd service
[`gitea-runner.service`](./gitea-runner.service) is an example unit for running
the runner as a background service on a systemd host.
## Setup
1. Install the `gitea-runner` binary (e.g. to `/usr/local/bin/gitea-runner`).
2. Create a dedicated user and working directory:
```bash
sudo useradd --system --home-dir /var/lib/gitea-runner --create-home gitea-runner
```
3. Generate a config and register the runner (as the service user), so the
`.runner` file ends up in the working directory:
```bash
sudo -u gitea-runner gitea-runner config generate > /etc/gitea-runner/config.yaml
cd /var/lib/gitea-runner
sudo -u gitea-runner gitea-runner register --config /etc/gitea-runner/config.yaml
```
4. Install and enable the unit:
```bash
sudo cp gitea-runner.service /etc/systemd/system/gitea-runner.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now gitea-runner
```
Adjust the binary path, config path, working directory and user to match your
installation. If jobs use the host's Docker daemon, uncomment the
`docker.service` dependencies in the unit.