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GitHub Enhances Control Over Hosted Runners
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- →Provides organizations with enhanced control over resource allocation and security for macOS runners.
- →Allows for better management of costs and capacity through concurrency limits.
- →Improves workflow customization by enabling policy-driven job routing.
GitHub has introduced new features to give organizations more control over their GitHub-hosted runners in Actions, focusing on macOS environments. Admins can now disable standard labels for hosted runners and add macOS runners to runner groups, allowing for more precise management of resources. This update enables organizations to restrict access to macOS runners, enforce concurrency limits, and route jobs through policy-driven runner groups. These enhancements are available on Team and Enterprise plans, although network configurations for macOS runners are not supported.
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