"Quickstart for Actions Runner Controller" recommends using a legacy user PAT for setting up ARC, which is poor practice

[paul-civitas]

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://github.com/github/docs/blob/main/content/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/managing-self-hosted-runners-with-actions-runner-controller/deploying-runner-scale-sets-with-actions-runner-controller.md

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

Reading the helm values for the gha-runner-scale-set chart, the helm chart supports authenticating via github app, which is a more secure and production grade method of configuring ARC than using a user's personal access token.

The docs should be updated to nudge people towards the more proper way of doing things.

Additional information

I know github is trying to phase out classic PATs so it was unexpected to see official docs instructing to use a PAT, especially when other methods are supported.

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[Sharra-writes]

Thanks so much for opening an issue! I'll get this triaged for review.

[brambhattabhishek]

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[Sharra-writes]

@paul-civitas Looking into this, it appears there is room to make this documentation better. If you or anyone else want to open a PR to improve it, we would appreciate the help. 💛

[sylwek78]

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[Increderoy]

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[Increderoy]

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[emrkonya]

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[ayushmank]

Hi @Sharra-writes i want to contribute in this issue if it opens please let me know !! thanks

[Sharra-writes]

@ayushmank If you want to update the wording, please feel free to open a PR. I'll run it by the ARC team and possibly our writers, depending on how substantial the changes are.