Will DinD mode in runner scale set persist over time and be supported by Github ?

[giom-l]

Hello,

In our organization, we have a difference of understandings about future of self-hosted runners.
We were previously using Actions Runner Controller with old images and recently switched to runner scale set.

By reading this discussion, we took note about what will be still be supported by Github and what will be left to community.

Maintainers of our self-hosted runners chose the kubernetes deployment type, which prevent us to use any docker command

The point on which we don't all agree on our side is about the future support of DinD mode.
I know the runner scale set currently supports both kubernetes and dind modes

But some of us think it is only supported for some time by Github and will be only maintained by community in the future.

Would it be possible to have a clear point of view about this ?
Will the dind mode support get removed eventually ?

[Link-]

We do not have plans to remove dind mode. Both modes exist because there are tradeoffs to be made using either of them and you will have to choose one that best fit your environment.

With dind you'll have to run your containers in privileged mode even when you use dind-rootless. With kubernetes mode you cannot run Docker command but you can use Kaniko for building containers for example.

[giom-l]

Thanks a lot for your reply @Link-
So both modes will continue to receive features/fixes and so on since those are complementary ?

[daoz1026]

Hello, we would like to know also, if the dind mode will be supported as well as the kubernetes mode. Will they both receive features/fixes ?
Regards

[Link-]

Both are supported for now