Conclusion

Thank you for participating in the workshop! Let's recap some of the key takeways that we've learned:

• Signed up for an Equinix Metal account and created an API key
• Installed the Equinix Metal CLI
• You prepared a code repository to use for creating and testing your runners.
• You created a new machine on Equinix Metal to use as a runner. We use a smaller machine for this workshop, but you can use any machine size you want, provided it is the right architecture (x64 or arm64) for your code.
• You configured a new runner for your repository.
• You installed the prerequisites for the runner on your Equinix Metal runner machine.
• You downloaded and configured the runner software on your Equinix Metal runner machine.
• We configured our github actions workflow to use a self-hosted runner.
• We ran the workflow on our self-hosted runner.
• We saw the output of the workflow on our self-hosted runner.
• We saw the output of the workflow on github.

References

• GitHub Docs on Self-Hosted Runners
• Equinix Metal CLI Documentation
• Equinix Metal Pricing

Resources

Here are a few other resources to look at to continue your Equinix Metal journey:

• Deploy @ Equinix: A one-stop shop for blogs, guides, and plenty of other resources.
• Equinix Metal Docs: Equinix Metal official documentation.
• Equinix Metal APIs: Programmatically interact with Equinix Metal
• Equinix Labs: Provides SDKs and Terraform modultes for Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Equinix Community: A global community for customers and Equinix users.