You can install gitlab-ci-multi-runner on a machine you control, and you will have unlimited CI minutes. I actually prefer this method because this lets me als

You can install gitlab-ci-multi-runner on a machine you control, and you will have unlimited CI minutes. I actually prefer this method because this lets me also write pipelines that depend on internal infrastructure and weird software (or not so weird - need a mac to build iOS projects with xcode, for example), and my code never touches random cloud VMs where the host is shared with other people (think guest-to-hypervisor escape exploit) It's also super duper easy to set up, with the runner client being a self-contained binary available for most operating systems thanks to being written in Go.