POST /orgs/{org}/actions/hosted-runners

Creates a GitHub-hosted runner for an organization. OAuth tokens and personal access tokens (classic) need the manage_runners:org scope to use this endpoint.

Servers

Path parameters

Name Type Required Description
org String Yes

The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.

Request headers

Name Type Required Description
Content-Type String Yes The media type of the request body.

Default value: "application/json"

Request body fields

Name Type Required Description
name String Yes

Name of the runner. Must be between 1 and 64 characters and may only contain upper and lowercase letters a-z, numbers 0-9, '.', '-', and '_'.

size String Yes

The machine size of the runner. To list available sizes, use GET actions/hosted-runners/machine-sizes

runner_group_id Integer Yes

The existing runner group to add this runner to.

maximum_runners Integer No

The maximum amount of runners to scale up to. Runners will not auto-scale above this number. Use this setting to limit your cost.

image Object Yes

The image of runner. To list all available images, use GET /actions/hosted-runners/images/github-owned or GET /actions/hosted-runners/images/partner.

image.id String No

The unique identifier of the runner image.

image.source String No

The source of the runner image.

Possible values:

  • "github"
  • "partner"
  • "custom"
enable_static_ip Boolean No

Whether this runner should be created with a static public IP. Note limit on account. To list limits on account, use GET actions/hosted-runners/limits

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