actions/runner-images

GitHub Actions runner images

DevOps & infrastructurePowerShell

1.8 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 26, 2026, 11:40 UTC.

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About the project

Source code for VM images of GitHub-hosted runners in GitHub Actions and Microsoft-hosted agents in Azure Pipelines: Ubuntu, Windows, macOS with preinstalled software.

Useful for

Pick the right image YAML label (ubuntu-latest, windows-2025, macos-26) for a workflow
Check the preinstalled software list in an image before configuring CI
Build a custom VM image from the repository sources

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

8 stars so far today, about 14 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 5 per day, so that's 2.9× as much.
Over the last two days the pace is 2.3× that of the previous week and a half.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
GitHub Trending today: #13, +13 stars.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 13,209
Today: 8 · ≈ 14 by evening
Forks: 3,857
Issues and pull requests: 13,121
Watchers: 373
Language: PowerShell
License: MIT
Latest release: ubuntu22-arm64/20260920.137 · September 25, 2026
Created: June 5, 2019
Last push: September 25, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 26, 2026GitHub Trending today: #13, +13 stars

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