Create image ubuntu-latest-minimal or similar

[cep21]

Hi,

Lots of people are running short on disk space running github actions. This is creating hacks like this. https://github.com/ThewBear/free-actions You can see lots of them in github if you search for the rm string.

https://github.com/search?l=YAML&q=rm+%2Fusr%2Fshare%2Fdotnet&type=Code

They are often look like this: https://github.com/VirtusLab/intellij-pants-plugin-tests/blob/1b0d2d685e80dfa6ec59939e0d3c832a7f8e4f15/.github/workflows/prepare-image.yml#L15

It seems like a hack to rm the directories that happen to be taking a lot of space, and probably something that's not consistent from one build to the next in the future. It may be worth a way to specify a minimal version to use, for people that need the extra disk space.

Some more follow up links here:

• https://github.com/ThewBear/free-actions
• Ubuntu images are running out of disk space #709
• https://github.com/NickleDave/vak/issues/341
• https://github.com/flashlight/wav2letter/actions/runs/74797824/workflow
• https://github.com/search?q=%22rm+-rf+%2Fusr%2Fshare%2Fdotnet%22&type=code

[AlenaSviridenko]

Hi @cep21,
you are just right in time with this idea 🙂 Glad to say, that we have already started preparing a plan to provide minimal Ubuntu images that will target a certain development stack. At this moment, I cannot provide any defined ETA because it is just a planning stage, but we see the issue for sure and looking for the solution.

[oittaa]

Any news on this one? Also, are there any plans for different distributions like Alpine Linux?

[miketimofeev]

The decision was made to focus on other stuff, so this is not something we could introduced soon

[crohr]

Hey @cep21, I know this issue is quite old, but if you're still looking for a solution, you could try an alternate runner such as https://github.com/runs-on/runs-on, which allows specifying disk size at runtime.

For instance for a 100GB disk:

runs-on: runs-on,runner=16cpu-linux,hdd=100