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Hello all, A Kubernetes/ARC beginner here. I wanted to understand whether Windows runners are currently supported? I see that, for instance, here there is information on Windows runners: But in a recent comment on the video here I can see that it's stated that Windows runners are not supported: Could you please clarify? |
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I would also like to know if there is support for windows runner. Any guidance on the same would help. |
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There will be no official support for windows runners with ARC. That might change in the future, but there are no concrete plans for it. |
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@Link- we're using Windows runners successfully and for us it's an important requirement. Do you see any specific potential issues for teams like us given the lack of "official" support here? |
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@roshitho yes we did follow that link and we're using the legacy version but have tested Windows runners on the new version too. I think on the main github runner repo there's a Dockerfile which was used as the basis for our Windows image, hth. There's also some more info in this issue I created (which has now been fixed). |
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@Link-, thank you for the response. What would be the best venue for the users to express interest in this feature (official Windows runner support), so that the intertest in this can be gaged, and the likelihood of this being picked up in future improved? |
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While Windows are not supported, I think that the current ARC controller code is good enought to spin WIndows pods. Here is an example of docker file + runner-set-values.yaml for https://gist.github.com/adiroiban/cd3ccdb9b28e949123bb51914de8d96b The biggest challenge is getting a Windows node into your k8s cluster and then building a container image good enought to run your tests. |
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There will be no official support for windows runners with ARC. That might change in the future, but there are no concrete plans for it.
Attempts were made by different entities that were successful. You're free to experiment yourself with this.