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UnterrainerInformatik · Apr 5, 2024 · 27003e0 · 27003e0
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diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs-local.yml b/.github/workflows/docs-local.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   build:
     name: Build & Publish 🚀
-    runs-on: self-hosted
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     env:
       INPUTPATH: asciidocs
       OUTPUTPATH: dist
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ jobs:
           FOLDER: ${{ env.OUTPUTPATH }}
   bump:
     name: Get And Bump SemVer 👊
-    runs-on: self-hosted
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [build]
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repo
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ jobs:
           WITH_V: false
   docker-build:
     name: Build Docker Image 🐋
-    runs-on: self-hosted
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [bump]
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repo
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ jobs:
           tags: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_HUB_USER }}/safe-learn:latest
   deploy:
     name: Deployment 💻
-    runs-on: self-hosted
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [docker-build]
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repo

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ To build, there is a Github action in this repository, but in order to configure
 | SERVER_URL             | This is the URL your server will be available at later, after deploying. Examples are `https://htl.unterrainer.info` or the default `http://localhost:8080`.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
 | PLANTUML_URL           | Defaults to `https://plantuml.unterrainer.info/plantuml`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
 | DEPLOY_DIR             | The absolute path to the installation directory on your target machine (server).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
-| DEPLOY_SERVER          | The host-address of your server (as accessible from a Gitlab runner).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
+| DEPLOY_SERVER          | The host-address of your server (as accessible from a Github runner).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
 | DEPLOY_SSH_PORT        | The port for the SSH connection to your server.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | DEPLOY_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY | The private key for SSH authentication.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
 | DEPLOY_SSH_USER        | The user for SSH authentication (local user).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
@@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ To build, there is a Github action in this repository, but in order to configure
 After starting the build-pipeline on Github for the first time after inserting all these values, you should have a NodeJS server deployed and up-and-running on your target machine, accessible via the PORT you entered as a secret.
 Upon entering any page you'll be prompted to login at the given Keycloak server in order to gain access.
 
+If your repository is private, which makes sense, Github will force you to either pay for Github Enterprise, or to have your own, self-hosted Github Runner. Because this repository however is public, the build-action-script refers to the runner as `runs-on: ubuntu-latest`. So in order to use your private self-hosted-runners you'll have to label them `ubuntu-latest` so Github will take care of that. Your runners will have slightly higher priority than the public ones.
+
 ## Debugging
 To test the portions of the web-site that isn't directly connected to the gh-pages generation and Asciidoc conversion, you may want to start it using VSCode.
 Just do the following: