Isnt this Docker out of Docker?

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Isnt this Docker out of Docker?

DavidJakszta opened this issue 3 months ago · 3 comments

In the Per-Repo Runner exmaple on the wiki your bind mount -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock which means you dont use docker inside of docker but mount the outer docker daemon inside the container. Is this not mandatory or am i missing something? This seems like Docker out of Docker for me

Answer 1 · 2024-08-26T20:57:19.000Z

That is how docker in docker works, but that isn't supported with actions upstream so you can skip that, it's not needed

Answer 2 · 2024-08-26T21:07:38.000Z

What do you mean it's not supported by actions upstream? I just want to self-host a GHA with docker in docker (No socket mounting)

Answer 3 · 2024-08-26T21:17:42.000Z

The readme links to the upstream issue. Docker is installed inside the image