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It's very easy to run your own GitLab-Runner (their open-source CI: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/ https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/) on your server (or any clou
by lclc 4y ago
It's very easy to run your own GitLab-Runner (their open-source CI: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/ https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/) on your server (or any cloud).
Set up within seconds using a few lines of cloud-init: https://gitlab.com/21analytics/gitlab-runner-cloud-init https://gitlab.com/21analytics/gitlab-runner-cloud-init
Most of the time, it's also cheaper and maintenance is close to zero.
- stingraycharles 4y agoI second GitLab runner, used it a lot on bare metal CI servers, because we have some really exotic hardware requirements. Happy customer for 3 years now, and the CI part costs us nothing.
- time0ut 4y agoGitlab is fantastic. It was easy to take an existing open source terraform module [0], modify it a little for our purposes, and deploy runners that provision job executors in our tightly controlled VPC. It is very simple and everything is open source so you can really understand what it is doing. In our setup, all secrets are issued from our private vault instances. Most of them are short lived or one time use when possible. We are looking at moving our stuff to EKS now as well. Overall, it was pretty easy to get going but we have the resources to do this. I could see why a small startup would outsource this to someone like Circle CI. [0] https://registry.terraform.io/modules/npalm/gitlab-runner/aws/latest https://registry.terraform.io/modules/npalm/gitlab-runner/aw...