RUNNER_LABELS not being passed to current runner

[isantospardo]

v0.23.3

I am currently deploying the actions-runner-controller via helm, and trying to set up the RUNNER_LABELS env in the controller, when setting this up, I see the following in the controller deployment pod:

spec:
  containers:
    - args:
        ......
      command:
        - /manager
      env:
          ....
        - name: RUNNER_LABELS
          value: 'self-hosted,dev'

But, in the github-action-runner I see the env var is not set as it should:

spec:
  containers:
    - env:
        ......
        - name: RUNNER_LABELS
        - name: RUNNER_GROUP
        ......

I am setting this up in helm with:

  source:
    chart: actions-runner-controller
    repoURL: 'https://actions-runner-controller.github.io/actions-runner-controller'
    targetRevision: 0.23.3
    helm:
      values: |-
        env:
          - name: RUNNER_LABELS
            value: self-hosted,dev
         ........

And of course, I dont see the label in the github runner dev

and I would like to see something like:

Am I doing anything wrong? or is this an actual bug?

[ramiradaideh]

Can you explain more about what you mean by "trying to set up the RUNNER_LABELS env in the controller". Not sure what exactly you are trying to do. Actions-runner-controller does not have RUNNER_LABELS as a parameter only has labels and podLabels.
https://github.com/actions/actions-runner-controller/blob/master/charts/actions-runner-controller/README.md

[isantospardo]

Mainly what I want is to add a new label called dev, which is shown in the screenshot I uploaded in the description of this discussion, by default, I see the following labels self-hosted, Linux, X64 and I would like to add one or more, is there any known way of doing that?

[ramiradaideh]

Why dont you set the labels on your RunnerDeploymet resource that you are creating? i.e

---

apiVersion: actions.summerwind.dev/v1alpha1
kind: RunnerDeployment
metadata:
name: actions-runners-small
namespace: actions
spec:
template:
spec:
repository: org/actions-runner
labels:
- small-runner
- dev
................

[isantospardo]

Aham, totally right, that was it, I was confused and only trying to set it up in the controller helm chart, instead, doing it in the RunnerDeployment fixed it.

Thanks a lot :) .

[ramiradaideh]

If you want to set labels on your arc then you can only use the parameters provided here

https://github.com/actions/actions-runner-controller/blob/e0a7e142e0fcd446c58e7875d4d44a7eea6e72f2/charts/actions-runner-controller/README.md

And then add it to your values.yaml template

RUNNER_LABELS is not a valid parameter