Performance

Runner types

CarbonRunner runners are faster, 25% cheaper and 90% less than carbon emissions then GitHub-hosted runners.

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2jobs:
3  deploy: 
4-   runs-on: ubuntu-latest
5+   runs-on: carbonrunner-2vcpu-ubuntu-latest
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Intel/AMD

Open the CarbonRunner dashboard and grant the permissions we need to execute your GitHub Action jobs on our carbon-aware infrastructure.

CarbonRunner

ARM64 (coming soon)

Update your workflow’s runs-on line to use CarbonRunner. We’ll pick up the PR checks automatically — that run will be the first you see in the dashboard.

KVM Virtualization Support

If you want to build with KVM use the label `kvm`

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2jobs:
3  deploy: 
4-   runs-on: ubuntu-latest
5+   runs-on: [carbonrunner-2vcpu-ubuntu-latest, kvm]
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The Greenest Way to Run GitHub Actions.