Init container logs excessively during copy command

[schniedergers]

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Controller Version

0.9.2

Deployment Method

Helm

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To Reproduce

1. Create an image that is based on ghcr.io/actions/actions-runner:latest and add `node` to it
2. Use that image as runner image in oci://ghcr.io/actions/actions-runner-controller-charts
3. Observe the logs from the init container. As `node` adds a lot of files, the verbose copy creates thousands of log lines each time a runner starts.

Describe the bug

Not really a bug, but it clogs up the log management (and increases costs)

Describe the expected behavior

Expected is that not every copied file is logged during the init container run.

Additional Context

Removing the `-v` from https://github.com/actions/actions-runner-controller/blob/80d848339e5eeaa6b2cda3c4a5393dfcb4614794/charts/gha-runner-scale-set/templates/_helpers.tpl#L90 reduces the logs significantly.

Controller Logs

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Runner Pod Logs

Jul 03 15:26:58.148
i-00521ce9880b56851
at-gha-base
'/home/runner/externals/./node20/include/node/openssl/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/providers/common/include/prov/der_sm2.h' -> '/home/runner/tmpDir/./node20/include/node/openssl/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/providers/common/include/prov/der_sm2.h'

Jul 03 15:26:58.148
i-00521ce9880b56851
at-gha-base
'/home/runner/externals/./node20/include/node/openssl/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/providers/common/include/prov/der_rsa.h' -> '/home/runner/tmpDir/./node20/include/node/openssl/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/providers/common/include/prov/der_rsa.h'

Jul 03 15:26:58.148
i-00521ce9880b56851
at-gha-base
'/home/runner/externals/./node20/include/node/openssl/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/providers/common/include/prov/der_ecx.h' -> '/home/runner/tmpDir/./node20/include/node/openssl/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/providers/common/include/prov/der_ecx.h'

Jul 03 15:26:58.148
i-00521ce9880b56851
at-gha-base
'/home/runner/externals/./node20/include/node/openssl/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/providers/common/include/prov/der_ec.h' -> '/home/runner/tmpDir/./node20/include/node/openssl/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/providers/common/include/prov/der_ec.h'

Jul 03 15:26:58.148
i-00521ce9880b56851
at-gha-base
'/home/runner/externals/./node20/include/node/openssl/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/providers/common/include/prov/der_dsa.h' -> '/home/runner/tmpDir/./node20/include/node/openssl/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/providers/common/include/prov/der_dsa.h'

Jul 03 15:26:58.148
i-00521ce9880b56851
at-gha-base
'/home/runner/externals/./node20/include/node/openssl/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/providers/common/include/prov/der_digests.h' -> '/home/runner/tmpDir/./node20/include/node/openssl/archs/linux-x86_64/no-asm/providers/common/include/prov/der_digests.h'

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[bowtie-ltsa]

fyi - as a work-around we are just removing the "-v" from the "cp" command in the chart. Since we are specifying our own chart template anyway, this was pretty simple to do.

i.e. instead of
command: ["cp", "-r", "-v", "/home/runner/externals/.", "/home/runner/tmpDir/"]
we're doing
command: ["/bin/bash", "-c", 'cp -r /home/runner/externals/. /home/runner/tmpDir/ || echo "cp: ERROR: exit code $?"; echo "cp: copied $(find /home/runner/tmpDir | wc -l)" directories and files']

more context:

gha-runner-scale-set:
  ## template is the PodSpec for each runner Pod
  ## For reference: https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/workload-resources/pod-v1/#PodSpec
  template:
    spec:
      # this init container copies files from the runner image to a volume that will be used by the dind container.
      # Standard runners use "cp -r -v" but under ARC and Loki that would log every file copied for every workflow
      # job in every org. (That's over 8000 lines of noise, per job per workflow per org.)
      # Instead, we omit the "-v" flag, echo the exit code if there is an error, and add a single-line summary.
      initContainers:
        - name: init-dind-externals
          image: artifactory.wu2.cloud.providence.org/docker-ghcr-remote/actions/actions-runner:latest
          command: ["/bin/bash", "-c", 'cp -r /home/runner/externals/. /home/runner/tmpDir/ || echo "cp: ERROR: exit code $?"; echo "cp: copied $(find /home/runner/tmpDir | wc -l)" directories and files']
          volumeMounts:
            - name: dind-externals
              mountPath: /home/runner/tmpDir
      containers:
        - name: runner
        # etc ...

ref:

actions-runner-controller/charts/gha-runner-scale-set/values.yaml

Lines 115 to 121 in 96d1bbc

	## initContainers:
	## - name: init-dind-externals
	## image: ghcr.io/actions/actions-runner:latest
	## command: ["cp", "-r", "-v", "/home/runner/externals/.", "/home/runner/tmpDir/"]
	## volumeMounts:
	## - name: dind-externals
	## mountPath: /home/runner/tmpDir