Glossary

The words these docs use for GitHub Actions and Codemany.

Runner

The program that takes a job from GitHub and runs its steps. On Codemany, one runner on your Mac runs one job, then is replaced.

Self-hosted runner

A runner on a machine you own instead of one GitHub hosts. Every one carries the self-hosted label.

Ephemeral, just-in-time (JIT) runner

A runner registered for exactly one job, which exits after it.

runs-on label

A job's runs-on lists labels, and GitHub gives the job to a runner that has every one of them. See runner labels.

Workflow, run, job and step

• Workflow: a file in .github/workflows.
• Run: one trigger of a workflow.
• Job: one unit that needs one runner.
• Step: one line of a job.