Conversion for CI from self-hosted hardware (#1245)

* changing from self-hosted runners to Github's ubuntu-22.04 runner environment

* adding warning about not using 'self-hosted' runner labels and using Github runners instead

* updated some guidance in comments for coverity scan CI

* moving CPU tests to workflow_dispatch only

.github/workflows/cpu_ci_on_pr.yml → .github/workflows/.cpu_ci_on_pr.yml

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# This file is hidden (.cpu_cpi_on_pr.yml) to minimize the number of runner minutes consumed.
+
 name: "Pull Request CPU Tests"
 
 on:
@@ -7,7 +9,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   run-tests:
-    runs-on: [ 'test', 'self-hosted' ]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04 # ubuntu-latest currently points to ubuntu-22.04 but 24.04 is in beta - recommend testing on 24.04 and then changing instead of using ubuntu-latest
     steps:
     - name: Checkout Repository
       uses: actions/checkout@v4

.github/workflows/coverity_scan.yml

@@ -17,9 +17,10 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     env:
-      COV_USER: ${{ secrets.COV_USER }}
+      COV_USER: ${{ secrets.COV_USER }} # needs to be an email with access to the Coverity stream - add to secrets/actions
       COVERITY_PROJECT: ${{ secrets.COVERITY_PROJECT }}
-      COVERITY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.COVERITY_TOKEN }}
+      COVERITY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.COVERITY_TOKEN }} # you can get this token from Coverity stream dashboard:
+        # https://scan.coverity.com/projects/<project>?tab=project_settings
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2

.github/workflows/cpu_ci.yml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ on: "push"
 jobs:
   run-tests:
     #runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    runs-on: [ 'test', 'self-hosted' ]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 

.github/workflows/cpu_ci_dispatch.yml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   run-tests:
-    runs-on: [ 'test', 'self-hosted' ]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     steps:
     - name: Checkout Repository
       uses: actions/checkout@v4

.github/workflows/pull_request.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 name: Pull Request
 
-on: [pull_request, workflow_dispatch]
+#on: [pull_request, workflow_dispatch]
+on: workflow_dispatch
 
 jobs:
   pre-commit:
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ jobs:
           git commit -m "Update NeoXArgs docs automatically"
           git push
   run-tests:
-    runs-on: self-hosted
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v2
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v4

tests/README.md

@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ Tests can be run against physical CPUs through GitHub Actions. To have tests run
 
 ### runs-on
 
+#### NOTE: These BKMs were written to work with CI infrastructure that is no longer in place. To use the Github runners (ubuntu-22.04 / ubuntu-latest), skip the 'runs-on' section.
+
 The CI needs to be written to target the CPU Github Action runner. The jobs that need to run on CPU should use the hardware runner's labels:
 ```yaml
 jobs: