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actions-runner-controllervsnextcloud-aio-mastercontainer

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

actions-runner-controllernextcloud-aio-mastercontainer
Score71/10076/100
Rank in category#7 of 28 in CI/CD#2 of 27 in File Sharing & Collaboration
GitHub stars6 61010 743
Stars, last 30 days+93+263
Stable releases, 12 months637
Latest releasegha-runner-scale-set-0.15.1 · 23 Oct 2026helm-chart-14.4.2 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageGoPHP

Which one should you pick?

nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer scores 76/100 against 71/100 for actions-runner-controller, so it is the safer default.

nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer ships more often: 37 stable releases in the past year, against 6 for actions-runner-controller.

If you want the quickest setup, nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer is easier to run; actions-runner-controller needs more configuration.

nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer is growing faster right now (+263 stars in 30 days).

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