GitHub Actions Runner Types

Depot offers several different types of GitHub Actions runners, depending on your CI job needs. You can choose the type on a per-job basis by specifying the runs-on key in your GitHub Actions workflow file:

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: depot-ubuntu-22.04

Note: We support the depot-ubuntu-latest-* alias for depot-ubuntu-22.04-* if you want to use the latest Ubuntu version.

Intel runners

Intel runners use AMD EC2 instances. Their EBS volume is provisioned with 8000 IOPS and 250 MB/s throughput.

The following labels are available:

Arm runners

Arm runners use Graviton3 EC2 instances. Their EBS volume is provisioned with 8000 IOPS and 250 MB/s throughput.

The following labels are available:

Ubuntu 24.04 runners

Status: Beta

GitHub have released a beta image for Ubuntu 24.04. These runners use the same instances as the Ubuntu 22.04 runners. Since this is a beta image, you may encounter issues with software compatibility.

The following labels are available:

I/O-optimized runners

Status: Beta

I/O-optimized runners use Intel EC2 instances with local NVMe SSDs for higher IOPS and disk throughput. The local SSD is configured as a write cache, so all writes are routed to the local disk, and reads are distributed between the EBS root volume and local disk.

While in beta, only 4-CPU runners and larger are available.

Intel I/O-optimized runners

Arm I/O-optimized runners