Possible to add custom commands to task commands?

[nickej]

Is there a way to add commands to the ecs task commands created by EcsRunnerProvider? For debug and traceability I would like to make sure that the IP-address and if possible the job url is printed in the runner logs.

[kichik]

Maybe something like this?

const builder = EcsRunnerProvider.imageBuilder(stack, 'builder');
builder.addComponent(
  RunnerImageComponent.environmentVariables({
    ACTIONS_RUNNER_HOOK_JOB_STARTED: '/home/runner/runner-started.sh',
  }),
);
builder.addComponent(
  RunnerImageComponent.custom({
    name: 'runner-started.sh',
    commands: [
      'echo "#!/bin/bash" > /home/runner/runner-started.sh',
      'echo \'curl ${ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI}/task) | jq -r ".Containers[0].Networks[0].IPv4Addresses[0]"\' >> /home/runner/runner-started.sh',
      'echo \'echo https://github.com/$GITHUB_REPOSITORY/actions/runs/$GITHUB_RUN_ID\' >> /home/runner/runner-started.sh',
      'chmod +x /home/runner/runner-started.sh',
    ],
  }),
);

const provider = new EcsRunnerProvider(stack, 'ECS', {
  labels: ['ecs'],
  imageBuilder: builder,
});

[nickej]

Ah, that looks like it might work, I will try it out. Thanks!

[nickej]

Tried it out and it works just not in the way I expected :-) The output ends up in the build logs in the github UI, which for the IP address actually could be usefull, but I wanted to log it in the clouwatch logs for the ecs task used to run the github runner. My bad for not phrasing my question in a better way.

For my use case I guess I would need to be able to add some custom commands to the task definition of the ECS task?

[kichik]

Maybe setting ACTIONS_RUNNER_PRINT_LOG_TO_STDOUT to true will work?

Found it here actions/runner#891