Provisioning a self-hosted runner
Note
- If your enterprise uses GitHub-hosted runners with GitHub Actions, proceed directly to configuring code scanning through GitHub.com. See "Configuring default setup for code scanning" and "Configuring default setup for code scanning at scale."
- With the exception of Swift analysis, default setup can now run on larger runners. See "About larger runners" and "Configuring larger runners for default setup."
GitHub Enterprise Cloud can run code scanning using a GitHub Actions workflow. First, you need to provision one or more self-hosted GitHub Actions runners in your environment. You can provision self-hosted runners at the repository, organization, or enterprise account level. See "About self-hosted runners" and "Adding self-hosted runners."
If you are provisioning a self-hosted runner for CodeQL analysis, your runner must use a CodeQL-supported operating system version and CPU architecture. See the CodeQL system requirements.
If you are using default setup for code scanning, assign the code-scanning label to your self-hosted runner. For more information about using labels with self-hosted runners, see "Using labels with self-hosted runners." For more information about using default setup for code scanning analysis of compiled languages, see "CodeQL code scanning for compiled languages."
You must ensure that Git is in the PATH variable on any self-hosted runners you use to run CodeQL actions.
Note
If you use CodeQL code scanning to analyze code written in Python in your enterprise, you must make sure that your self-hosted runner has Python 3 installed.