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This PR moves every CI/CD workflow from self-hosted runners to GitHub-hosted ubuntu-latest runners. The repo is public and forkable, so its workflows belong on GitHub-hosted runners.

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Runner migration across all workflows:

  • ci.yml: Moved the test, redis-lock, memcached, and wasm jobs to ubuntu-latest.
  • release.yml: Moved the publish job to ubuntu-latest.
  • security.yml: Moved the supply-chain job to ubuntu-latest.

Removed self-hosted-specific configuration:

  • Dropped the custom RUSTUP_HOME, CARGO_HOME, and CARGO_BUILD_JOBS: "4" environment variables that worked around constraints of the old runners; none of them apply on a hosted VM.
  • Removed .github/actionlint.yaml's self-hosted-runner label registry; the labels it registered no longer appear anywhere.

Added build caching:

  • Introduced Swatinem/rust-cache (pinned to v2.9.2) to the test, redis-lock, memcached, and wasm jobs to speed up builds now that runs happen on cache-less hosted runners. The test job keys the cache per Rust toolchain version.
  • release.yml deliberately omits rust-cache: the publish job holds CARGO_REGISTRY_TOKEN and runs only during releases, so the negligible build-time saving from a third-party action does not justify widening the secret's trust surface. A comment says so.

Added drift protection:

  • New guard-hosted-runners job that fails the build if any workflow file still references a self-hosted runner label. It parses each workflow with yq (not a line-oriented grep), so runs-on, matrix.os and matrix.runner are resolved whether written as a scalar, a flow-list or a block-list, and a yq parse failure is reported as an explicit error rather than swallowed as "no hits". Documented as maintainer drift protection only, not a fork-PR security control (that lives in repository and org runner settings, outside this file).

Updated comments:

  • Revised inline documentation to reflect that hosted runners have Docker preinstalled (so services: containers work with no extra setup) and that persist-credentials: false now protects the git config rather than a self-hosted runner workspace; kept workflow comments to what a public repo should say.

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  • Chores
    • CI, release, and security workflows now run on hosted Ubuntu runners instead of self-hosted runners.
    • Added safeguards to detect retired self-hosted runner labels and enforce hosted-runner usage.
    • Added pinned Rust caching to test, integration, and WebAssembly checks.
    • Updated checkout and service-networking guidance for hosted runner environments.
    • Removed obsolete self-hosted runner labels and job-specific Rust and Cargo build settings.

Every job in .github/workflows/ now runs on GitHub-hosted ubuntu-latest
instead of the self-hosted ARC pool (cachekit / cachekit-lean). Ray
ratified moving public-repo lanes off the pool ahead of putting the pool
in a runner group public repos cannot reach (LAB-1161 stage 1, option
a+c); this repo's slice must merge before stage 2 restricts the pool, or
every job here would wait forever for a runner.

- ci.yml, release.yml, security.yml: runs-on: cachekit / cachekit-lean
  -> ubuntu-latest. redis/memcached services blocks work unchanged --
  hosted runners have Docker built in, no dind sidecar needed.
- Drop the self-hosted-only RUSTUP_HOME/CARGO_HOME/CARGO_BUILD_JOBS
  overrides: that workaround existed for the pool's 6Gi cgroup and
  container-overlay filesystem, neither of which applies on a hosted VM.
- Add Swatinem/rust-cache to the jobs that do full cargo builds -- the
  pool never had a hostPath cache wired into these workflows either, so
  this is a net new speedup, not a lost warm cache.
- Add a guard job (ci.yml) that fails the workflow if any runs-on/os/
  runner value in .github/workflows/ still names cachekit, cachekit-lean
  or self-hosted. It's drift protection for maintainers, not a fork-PR
  control -- a fork runs its own copy of the workflow; the server-side
  control is stage 2.
- Remove .github/actionlint.yaml's self-hosted-runner label registry --
  the labels it registered no longer appear anywhere.
- Rewrite comments that described the two-pool split (services needs
  Docker, cachekit-lean's memory cgroup, self-hosted runner workspace)
  now that the split doesn't exist.
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The workflows now use hosted runners instead of self-hosted labels. CI adds a guard against self-hosted labels and Rust caching. Release and security workflows remove shared Rust and Cargo environment overrides.

Changes

Hosted runner migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runner policy
.github/actionlint.yaml, .github/workflows/ci.yml
The actionlint runner registry was removed. CI now fails when workflow files reference cachekit, cachekit-lean, or self-hosted.
CI jobs and caching
.github/workflows/ci.yml
Test, Redis, memcached, and wasm jobs now use ubuntu-latest. Pinned Rust caching and hosted-container comments were added.
Release and security jobs
.github/workflows/release.yml, .github/workflows/security.yml
The release and security jobs now use ubuntu-latest. Shared Rust and Cargo environment settings were removed. The security checkout comment was updated.

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A future workflow can reintroduce a retired runner through a matrix include entry without CI detecting it, potentially leaving that job unable to schedule. The current migration remains otherwise bounded.

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Expert-panel review (bug-hunter-supreme) found that the drift guard's
line-oriented grep only matched a self-hosted label on the same line as
`runs-on:`. A block-sequence label (`runs-on:\n  - self-hosted`) never
starts with `runs-on:`/`os:`/`runner:` itself, so it slipped past
undetected while the guard still reported green.

- Replace the grep with a yq-based check that resolves the actual
  runs-on/matrix.os/matrix.runner value regardless of scalar, flow-list,
  or block-list form, then greps the resolved value for the retired
  labels. Verified against a synthetic block-list bypass file locally.
- release.yml: add a one-line comment explaining why the publish job
  (holds CARGO_REGISTRY_TOKEN) deliberately skips Swatinem/rust-cache,
  per code-craftsman's review (the asymmetry with ci.yml's build jobs
  was correct but undocumented).
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37-57: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Include matrix.include runner values in the retired-runner guard

When a job uses runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}, GitHub Actions exposes runner values from strategy.matrix.include. The current yq expression reads only the top-level matrix.os and matrix.runner arrays. A cachekit or cachekit-lean value in matrix.include can therefore bypass the guard and later fail to schedule. Include .jobs[].strategy.matrix.include[]? in the yq extraction.

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Comment-only, plus one step name. The drift-guard rationale named org runner
infrastructure and settings that do not belong in a public repository; the
public reason is simply that a public, forkable repo runs only on
GitHub-hosted runners. No behaviour change.
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