I have a github action that runs on self-hosted runners. And we have many labels like ‘xsmall’, ‘small’, ‘large’, ‘xlarge’ etc. And all of them have a common label as well like devops. So in many github actions I have something like this

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    runs-on: [self-hosted, devops ]
...

Now this will pick any self-hosted runner with label devops. And turns out that its sometimes picking ‘xsmall’ and for my needs ‘xsmall’ doesn’t have enough memory and therefore my job throws an OOM. A simple fix would be to pick a runner that is NOT ‘xsmall’.

I tried

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    runs-on: [self-hosted, devops, small, large, xlarge ]
...

But this is not even starting because this runs-on directive is an AND condition meaning it will pick a runner with all labels like devops, small, large, xlarge. However there is no runner like this in our org.

So is there a way to just exclude xsmall but have the ability for my job to pick any other runner thats available? Essentially I need an OR condition.