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From: William Turner <w_turner@orange.fr>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2026 11:21:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Remove=20act=5Frunner=20config=20file/mount=20?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=E2=80=94=20unreliable=20under=20Portainer=20git-stack=20deploy?=
 =?UTF-8?q?,=20and=20unnecessary?=
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The bind-mounted relative path resolved to nothing once Portainer's cloned
checkout no longer persisted for the container's runtime, so Docker silently
created an empty directory there and act_runner crash-looped. act_runner
already auto-detects its own docker.sock without any custom config.
---
 act-runner-config.yaml | 4 ----
 docker-compose.yml     | 7 +++++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 act-runner-config.yaml

diff --git a/act-runner-config.yaml b/act-runner-config.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 94aff0d..0000000
--- a/act-runner-config.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# act_runner auto-detects that it has its own /var/run/docker.sock mounted (see
-# docker-compose.yml) and passes it through to job containers itself — no explicit
-# options needed here. This file is kept (even near-empty) so CONFIG_FILE has a
-# stable target if runner-level settings are needed later.
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 19c6e60..f54ead5 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -73,11 +73,14 @@ services:
       # catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest is the standard job-container image for
       # act/act_runner — includes git + docker CLI, which job steps need.
       GITEA_RUNNER_LABELS: docker:docker://catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest
-      CONFIG_FILE: /etc/act_runner/config.yaml
+      # No custom config.yaml: act_runner already auto-detects its own bind-mounted
+      # docker.sock and passes it through to job containers with no extra config needed.
+      # (A relative-path bind-mounted config file here would also be unreliable under
+      # Portainer's git-stack deploy — its cloned checkout doesn't persist for the
+      # container's runtime, so the mount source can silently resolve to nothing.)
     volumes:
       - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
       - act_runner_data:/data
-      - ./act-runner-config.yaml:/etc/act_runner/config.yaml:ro
     networks:
       - web