Can we have (almost) empty macOS runners?

[ringods]

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Brief description of tool

Thanks for having macOS runners.

Besides doing software builds, where Github Actions is mainly targeted to, I also leverage the macOS runners to verify the automation that manages my MBP: https://github.com/ringods/macos-config
Similar project: https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook

The macOS runners come preinstalled with a lot of tools, which for regular software builds, are a prerequisite. For the validation of my automated setup, I would like to start from an (almost) empty VM.

Would it be possible to have variants of the macOS runner setup without all the pre-installed tools?

URL for tool's homepage

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Provide a basic test case to validate the tool's functionality.

* Start with an empty VM
* In my GHA setup, I install Homebrew & Ansible
* I then run my automated macOS setup
* I validate everything works.

Virtual environments affected

• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• macOS 10.15
• macOS 11
• macOS 12
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Can this tool be installed during the build?

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Tool installation time in runtime

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Are you willing to submit a PR?

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[al-cheb]

Hello @ringods ,
Currently, we don't have any plans to provide clean images. You should create your own macOS self-hosted agents.