diff --git a/.forgejo/workflows/example-docker-compose.yml b/.forgejo/workflows/example-docker-compose.yml
index ca435bb..4e2f547 100644
--- a/.forgejo/workflows/example-docker-compose.yml
+++ b/.forgejo/workflows/example-docker-compose.yml
@@ -14,22 +14,19 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install docker
         run: |
           apt-get update -qq
-          export DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY=""
-          export DOCKER_HOST="unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
           export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
           apt-get install -qq -y ca-certificates curl gnupg
           install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
-          curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
-          echo "deb [arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)" signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian "$(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME")" stable" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
+          curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
+          echo "deb [arch="$(dpkg --print-architecture)" signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian "$(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME")" stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
           apt-get update -qq
           apt-get install -qq -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin=2.20.2-1~debian.11~bullseye
+          docker version
+          #
+          # docker compose is prone to non backward compatible changes, pin it
+          #
           apt-get install -qq -y docker-compose-plugin=2.20.2-1~debian.11~bullseye
-
-      - name: Start Docker Daemon in the Background
-        run: |
-          nohup dockerd > /dev/null 2>&1 &
-          sleep 10  # Wait for Docker to initialize
-          docker info  # Verify Docker is running
+          docker compose version
 
       - name: run the example
         run: |
@@ -38,7 +35,6 @@ jobs:
           secret=$(openssl rand -hex 20)
           sed -i -e "s/{SHARED_SECRET}/$secret/" compose-forgejo-and-runner.yml
           cli="docker compose --progress quiet -f compose-forgejo-and-runner.yml"
-          chown -R 1000:1000 /srv
           #
           # Launch Forgejo & the runner
           #
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index af507da..50f1965 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 FROM --platform=$BUILDPLATFORM code.forgejo.org/oci/tonistiigi/xx AS xx
 
-FROM --platform=$BUILDPLATFORM code.forgejo.org/oci/golang:1.21-alpine3.19 AS build-env
+FROM --platform=$BUILDPLATFORM code.forgejo.org/oci/golang:1.21-alpine3.19 as build-env
 
 #
 # Transparently cross compile for the target platform
@@ -40,10 +40,8 @@ ENV HOME=/data
 
 USER 1000:1000
 
-COPY --chmod=555 entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
-
 WORKDIR /data
 
 VOLUME ["/data"]
 
-ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]
+CMD ["/bin/forgejo-runner"]
diff --git a/entrypoint.sh b/entrypoint.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 712227e..0000000
--- a/entrypoint.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,132 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-set -e
-
-# Technically not nessecary but it cleans up the logs from having token/secret values
-run_command() {
-  local cmd="$@"
-  # Replace any --token <value> or --secret <value> with [REDACTED]
-  local safe_cmd=$(echo "$cmd" | sed -E 's/--(token|secret) [^ ]+/--\1 [REDACTED]/g')
-  decho "Running command: $safe_cmd"
-  eval $cmd
-}
-
-decho() {
-  if [[ "${DEBUG}" == "true" ]]; then
-    echo "[entrypoint] $@"
-  fi
-}
-decho $PWD
-
-# Check if the script is running as root
-if [[ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]]; then
-  ISROOT=true
-  decho "[WARNING] Running as root user"
-fi
-
-# Handle if `command` is passed, as command appends arguments to the entrypoint
-if [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; then
-    run_command $@
-    exit
-fi
-
-# Handle and alter the config file
-if [[ -z "${CONFIG_FILE}" ]]; then
-  echo "CONFIG_FILE is not set"
-  CONFIG_FILE="/data/config.yml"
-fi
-CONFIG_ARG="--config ${CONFIG_FILE}"
-decho "CONFIG: ${CONFIG_ARG}"
-
-DOCKER_HOST=${DOCKER_HOST:-"tcp://docker:2367"}
-DOCKER_CERT_PATH=${DOCKER_CERT_PATH:-"/certs/client"}
-DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY=${DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY:-1}
-decho "DOCKER_HOST: ${DOCKER_HOST}"
-decho "DOCKER_CERT_PATH: ${DOCKER_CERT_PATH}"
-decho "DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY: ${DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY}"
-if [[ ! -f "${CONFIG_FILE}" ]]; then
-  echo "Creating ${CONFIG_FILE}"
-  run_command "forgejo-runner generate-config > ${CONFIG_FILE}"
-
-  # Remove test environment variables if they exist in the config file
-  sed -i "/^    A_TEST_ENV_NAME_1:/d" ${CONFIG_FILE}
-  sed -i "/^    A_TEST_ENV_NAME_2:/d" ${CONFIG_FILE}
-
-  # Apply default values for docker
-  sed -i "/^  labels:/c\  labels: [\"docker:docker://code.forgejo.org/oci/node:20-bookworm\", \"ubuntu-22.04:docker://catthehacker/ubuntu:act-22.04\"]" ${CONFIG_FILE}
-  sed -i "/^  network:/c\  network: host" ${CONFIG_FILE}
-
-fi
-
-ENV_FILE=${ENV_FILE:-"/data/.env"}
-decho "ENV_FILE: ${ENV_FILE}"
-sed -i "/^  env_file:/c\  env_file: ${ENV_FILE}" ${CONFIG_FILE}
-
-if [[ ! -f "${ENV_FILE}" ]]; then
-  echo "Creating ${ENV_FILE}"
-  touch ${ENV_FILE}
-  echo "DOCKER_HOST=${DOCKER_HOST}" >> ${ENV_FILE}
-  echo "DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY=${DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY}" >> ${ENV_FILE}
-  echo "DOCKER_CERT_PATH=${DOCKER_CERT_PATH}" >> ${ENV_FILE}
-fi
-
-EXTRA_ARGS=""
-if [[ ! -z "${RUNNER_LABELS}" ]]; then
-  EXTRA_ARGS="${EXTRA_ARGS} --labels ${RUNNER_LABELS}"
-fi
-decho "EXTRA_ARGS: ${EXTRA_ARGS}"
-
-# Set the runner file
-RUNNER_FILE=${RUNNER_FILE:-"runner.json"} # use json so editors know how to highlight
-decho "RUNNER_FILE: ${RUNNER_FILE}"
-sed -i "/^  file:/c\  file: ${RUNNER_FILE}" ${CONFIG_FILE}
-
-if [[ "${SKIP_WAIT}" != "true" ]]; then
-  echo "Waiting 10s to allow other services to start up..."
-  sleep 10
-fi
-
-if [[ ! -s "${RUNNER_FILE}" ]]; then
-  touch ${RUNNER_FILE}
-  try=$((try + 1))
-  success=0
-  decho "try: ${try}, success: ${success}"
-
-  # The point of this loop is to make it simple, when running both forgejo-runner and gitea in docker,
-  # for the forgejo-runner to wait a moment for gitea to become available before erroring out.  Within
-  # the context of a single docker-compose, something similar could be done via healthchecks, but
-  # this is more flexible.
-  while [[ $success -eq 0 ]] && [[ $try -lt ${MAX_REG_ATTEMPTS:-10} ]]; do
-    if [[ ! -z "${FORGEJO_SECRET}" ]]; then
-      run_command forgejo-runner create-runner-file --connect \
-    --instance "${FORGEJO_URL:-http://forgejo:3000}" \
-    --name "${RUNNER_NAME:-$(hostname)}" \
-    --secret "${FORGEJO_SECRET}" \
-    ${CONFIG_ARG}\
-    ${EXTRA_ARGS} 2>&1 | tee /tmp/reg.log
-    else
-      run_command forgejo-runner register \
-    --instance "${FORGEJO_URL:-http://forgejo:3000}" \
-    --name "${RUNNER_NAME:-$(hostname)}" \
-    --token "${RUNNER_TOKEN}" \
-    --no-interactive \
-    ${CONFIG_ARG}\
-    ${EXTRA_ARGS} 2>&1 | tee /tmp/reg.log
-    fi
-    cat /tmp/reg.log | grep -E 'connection successful|registered successfully' >/dev/null
-    if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
-      echo "SUCCESS"
-      success=1
-    else
-      echo "Waiting to retry ..."
-      sleep 5
-    fi
-    decho "try: ${try}, success: ${success}"
-  done
-fi
-
-# Prevent reading the token from the forgejo-runner process
-unset RUNNER_TOKEN
-unset FORGEJO_SECRET
-
-run_command forgejo-runner daemon ${CONFIG_ARG}
diff --git a/examples/docker-compose/.gitignore b/examples/docker-compose/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 94bf3ec..0000000
--- a/examples/docker-compose/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-srv
diff --git a/examples/docker-compose/compose-forgejo-and-runner.yml b/examples/docker-compose/compose-forgejo-and-runner.yml
index 6431893..4794985 100644
--- a/examples/docker-compose/compose-forgejo-and-runner.yml
+++ b/examples/docker-compose/compose-forgejo-and-runner.yml
@@ -11,82 +11,83 @@
 # NOTE: a token obtained from the Forgejo web interface cannot be used
 #       as a shared secret.
 #
-# Replace ${RUNNER_TOKEN} with the token obtained from the Forgejo web interface.
+# Replace {ROOT_PASSWORD} with a secure password
 #
-# Replace ROOT_PASSWORD with a secure password.
-#
-networks:
-  forgejo:
 
 volumes:
   docker_certs:
 
 services:
+
   docker-in-docker:
     image: code.forgejo.org/oci/docker:dind
-    hostname: docker # Must set hostname for both internal DNS and TLS to work as certs are only valid for docker and localhost
-    restart: unless-stopped
+    hostname: docker  # Must set hostname as TLS certificates are only valid for docker or localhost
     privileged: true
-    networks:
-      - forgejo
     environment:
-      DOCKER_TLS_CERTDIR: "/certs" # set to "" to disable the use of TLS, also manually update existing runner configs to use port 2375
-      DOCKER_HOST: "docker" # remove aswell to disable TLS
+      DOCKER_TLS_CERTDIR: /certs
+      DOCKER_HOST: docker-in-docker
     volumes:
       - docker_certs:/certs
 
   forgejo:
     image: codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo:1.21
-    hostname: forgejo
-    networks:
-      - forgejo
-    volumes:
-      - /srv/forgejo-data:/data
-    ports:
-      - 8080:3000
-    environment:
-      FORGEJO__security__INSTALL_LOCK: "true" # remove in production
     command: >-
       bash -c '
       /bin/s6-svscan /etc/s6 &
       sleep 10 ;
-      su -c "forgejo admin user create --admin --username root --password ROOT_PASSWORD --email root@example.com" git ;
       su -c "forgejo forgejo-cli actions register --secret {SHARED_SECRET}" git ;
+      su -c "forgejo admin user create --admin --username root --password {ROOT_PASSWORD} --email root@example.com" git ;
       sleep infinity
       '
-
-  # all values that have defaults listed are optional
-  # only FORGEJO_SECRET or RUNNER_TOKEN is required, the secret will be prioritized
-  # FORGEJO_URL is required if forgejo is not in this compose file or docker network
-  runner-daemon:
-    ## TODO: Update image to the the release
-    ## made from this PR: https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/runner/pulls/283
-
-    # image: code.forgejo.org/forgejo/runner:3.4.1
-    build: ../../
-    user: "1000" # defaults to 1000,
-    restart: unless-stopped # needed for fixing file ownership on restart
+    environment:
+      FORGEJO__security__INSTALL_LOCK: "true"
+      FORGEJO__log__LEVEL: "debug"
+      FORGEJO__repository__ENABLE_PUSH_CREATE_USER: "true"
+      FORGEJO__repository__DEFAULT_PUSH_CREATE_PRIVATE: "false"
+      FORGEJO__repository__DEFAULT_REPO_UNITS: "repo.code,repo.actions"
     volumes:
-      - /srv/runner-data:/data
-      - docker_certs:/certs
-    networks:
-      - forgejo
-    depends_on:
+      - /srv/forgejo-data:/data
+    ports:
+      - 8080:3000
+
+  runner-register:
+    image: code.forgejo.org/forgejo/runner:3.4.1
+    links:
       - docker-in-docker
       - forgejo
     environment:
-      CONFIG_FILE: config.yml # defaults to /data/config.yml
+      DOCKER_HOST: tcp://docker-in-docker:2376
+    volumes:
+      - /srv/runner-data:/data
+    user: 0:0
+    command: >-
+      bash -ec '
+      while : ; do
+        forgejo-runner create-runner-file --connect --instance http://forgejo:3000 --name runner --secret {SHARED_SECRET} && break ;
+        sleep 1 ;
+      done ;
+      sed -i -e "s|\"labels\": null|\"labels\": [\"docker:docker://code.forgejo.org/oci/node:20-bookworm\", \"ubuntu-22.04:docker://catthehacker/ubuntu:act-22.04\"]|" .runner ;
+      forgejo-runner generate-config > config.yml ;
+      sed -i -e "s|network: .*|network: host|" config.yml ;
+      sed -i -e "s|^  envs:$$|  envs:\n    DOCKER_HOST: tcp://docker:2376\n    DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY: 1\n    DOCKER_CERT_PATH: /certs/client|" config.yml ;
+      sed -i -e "s|^  options:|  options: -v /certs/client:/certs/client|" config.yml ;
+      sed -i -e "s|  valid_volumes: \[\]$$|  valid_volumes:\n    - /certs/client|" config.yml ;
+      chown -R 1000:1000 /data
+      '
 
-      DOCKER_HOST: "tcp://docker:2376" # defaults to tcp://docker:2376
-      DOCKER_CERT_PATH: "/certs/client" # defaults to /certs/client
-      DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY: "1" # defaults to 1
-
-      FORGEJO_URL: ${FORGEJO_URL} # defaults to http://forgejo:3000
-      FORGEJO_SECRET: "{SHARED_SECRET}" # shared secret, must match Forgejo's, overrides RUNNER_TOKEN
-
-      RUNNER_FILE: .runner # defaults to /data/runner.json
-      RUNNER_NAME: runner-daemon # defaults to forgejo-runner, used for registration
-      RUNNER_TOKEN: ${RUNNER_TOKEN} # token obtained from Forgejo web interface
-
-      DEBUG: "true" # defaults to false, set to true to enable debug logging
-      SKIP_WAIT: "false" # defaults to false, set to true to skip the 10 second wait to allow for forgejo and docker-in-docker to start
+  runner-daemon:
+    image: code.forgejo.org/forgejo/runner:3.4.1
+    links:
+      - docker-in-docker
+      - forgejo
+    environment:
+      DOCKER_HOST: tcp://docker:2376
+      DOCKER_CERT_PATH: /certs/client
+      DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY: "1"
+    volumes:
+      - /srv/runner-data:/data
+      - docker_certs:/certs
+    command: >-
+      bash -c '
+      while : ; do test -w .runner && forgejo-runner --config config.yml daemon ; sleep 1 ; done
+      '