I have a setup on a Pi for deploying progscrape.com that has a systemd task to boot a new runner in a container. I really need to turn it into a bare-metal deployment script so I can recover from an SD card crash.

Basically this service:

  [Unit]
  Description=%N Container
  After=docker.service
  Requires=docker.service
  [Service]
  TimeoutSec=3600
  Restart=always
  WorkingDirectory=/srv/progscrape/progscrape-deploy/github-runners
  ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker compose -f %N.yml -p %N stop
  ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker compose -f %N.yml -p %N pull
  ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker compose -f %N.yml -p %N up
  ExecStopPost=-/usr/bin/docker compose -f %N.yml -p %N rm -f
  [Install]
  WantedBy=multi-user.target

Boots this docker compose definition:

  services:
    github-docker-runner:
      image: myoung34/github-runner:latest
      restart: "no"
      environment:
        RUNNER_NAME: progscrape-docker-compose
        RUNNER_WORKDIR: /tmp/work
        EPHEMERAL: 1
        LABELS: management,linux,ARM64
        DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE: 1
      env_file:
        - github-runner.env
      configs:
        - github-runner-start
      entrypoint: /bin/sh
      command: /github-runner-start
      security_opt:
        # needed on SELinux systems to allow docker container to manage other docker containers
        - label:disable
      volumes:
        - '/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock'

  configs:
    github-runner-start:
      file: runner-start.sh