From e3990e0ec17ae8c338073fe2a72448f8d5b4ef93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Henry Skiba <henry.skiba@frgrisk.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2026 08:41:08 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Use pre-extracted runner from AMI

Skip extraction step since runner is now pre-extracted
during AMI build at /opt/actions-runner/. This reduces
startup time and disk I/O.
---
 user-data.sh | 17 +++++++----------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/user-data.sh b/user-data.sh
index 7225372..d1b0475 100644
--- a/user-data.sh
+++ b/user-data.sh
@@ -57,19 +57,16 @@ sed -i 's/ap-southeast-3/us-east-2/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
 # Add ubuntu user to docker group
 usermod -aG docker ubuntu
 
-# Setup runner directory
-cd /opt
-mkdir -p actions-runner
-chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu actions-runner
-cd actions-runner
-
-# Extract runner
-log_to_cloudwatch "INFO" "Extracting GitHub runner"
-if ! sudo -u ubuntu tar xzf ../runner-cache/actions-runner-linux-* -C .; then
-    log_to_cloudwatch "ERROR" "Failed to extract runner archive"
+# Use pre-extracted runner directory
+cd /opt/actions-runner
+
+# Verify runner exists
+if [ ! -f "./run.sh" ]; then
+    log_to_cloudwatch "ERROR" "Runner not found at /opt/actions-runner"
     shutdown now
     exit 1
 fi
+log_to_cloudwatch "INFO" "Using pre-extracted GitHub runner"
 
 # Get instance type (we already have instance ID from earlier)
 INSTANCE_TYPE=$(curl -s -H "X-aws-ec2-metadata-token: $TOKEN" http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-type)