feat: switching to higher spec runners (#1312)

* feat: switching to higher spec runners

Signed-off-by: AlexsJones <alexsimonjones@gmail.com>

* chore: switched to runner groups

Signed-off-by: AlexsJones <alexsimonjones@gmail.com>

* chore: switched to runner groups

Signed-off-by: AlexsJones <alexsimonjones@gmail.com>

* chore: switched to runner groups

Signed-off-by: AlexsJones <alexsimonjones@gmail.com>

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Signed-off-by: AlexsJones <alexsimonjones@gmail.com>

.github/workflows/build_container.yaml

@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ defaults:
 jobs:
   prepare_ci_run:
     name: Prepare CI Run
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    runs-on:
+      group: "cncf/Default"
     outputs:
       GIT_SHA: ${{ steps.extract_branch.outputs.GIT_SHA }}
       BRANCH: ${{ steps.extract_branch.outputs.BRANCH }}
@@ -61,7 +62,8 @@ jobs:
   build_image:
     name: Build Container Image
     needs: prepare_ci_run
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    runs-on:
+      group: "cncf/Default"
     env:
       BRANCH: ${{ needs.prepare_ci_run.outputs.BRANCH }}
       DATETIME: ${{ needs.prepare_ci_run.outputs.DATETIME }}
@@ -105,7 +107,8 @@ jobs:
     name: Upload images to ghcr registry
     needs: [ prepare_ci_run, build_image ]
     if: github.event_name == 'push' && needs.prepare_ci_run.outputs.NON_FORKED_AND_NON_ROBOT_RUN == 'true' # only run on push to main/maintenance branches
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    runs-on:
+      group: "cncf/Default"
     env:
       DATETIME: ${{ needs.prepare_ci_run.outputs.DATETIME }}
       BUILD_TIME: ${{ needs.prepare_ci_run.outputs.BUILD_TIME }}

.github/workflows/golangci_lint.yaml

@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   golangci-lint:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on:
+      group: "cncf/Default"
     steps:
       - name: Check out code into the Go module directory
         uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4

.github/workflows/release.yaml

@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ jobs:
     permissions:
       contents: write  # for google-github-actions/release-please-action to create release commit
       pull-requests: write  # for google-github-actions/release-please-action to create release PR
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on:
+      group: "cncf/Default"
     outputs:
       releases_created: ${{ steps.release.outputs.releases_created }}
       tag_name: ${{ steps.release.outputs.tag_name }}
@@ -38,7 +39,8 @@ jobs:
       contents: write
     needs:
       - release-please
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on:
+      group: "cncf/Default"
     steps:
       - name: Free Disk Space (Ubuntu)
         uses: jlumbroso/free-disk-space@main
@@ -80,7 +82,8 @@ jobs:
     if: needs.release-please.outputs.releases_created == 'true'
     needs:
       - release-please
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on:
+      group: "cncf/Default"
     permissions:
       contents: write
       packages: write

.github/workflows/semantic_pr.yaml

@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ defaults:
     shell: bash
 jobs:
   validate:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    runs-on:
+      group: "cncf/Default"
     permissions:
       contents: read # Needed for checking out the repository
       pull-requests: read # Needed for reading prs

.github/workflows/test.yaml

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ env:
 
 jobs:
   build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on:
+      group: "cncf/Default"
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4