Securing Your CI/CD Pipeline: Exploring the Dangers of Self-Hosted Runners

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines have become crucial to modern software development practices. CI/CD pipelines can significantly improve development efficiency and software quality by automating the process of building, testing, and deploying code. Most modern CI/CD platforms (like GitHub actions, Circle CI, etc.) offer an option to run the pipeline process over a self-hosted runner - an agent hosted by the user instead of the CI/CD platform, to execute jobs on their own infrastructure.

With self-hosted runners, you can create …

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