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Yes. I'm a premium user and I got so pissed off with their runners that we ended up building a runner farm in AWS. This is so much faster and better but as a p
by bradwood 4y ago
Yes. I'm a premium user and I got so pissed off with their runners that we ended up building a runner farm in AWS.
This is so much faster and better but as a premium user I cannot refuse to take the bundled CI minutes on their shitty SaaS runners.
- barefeg 4y agoThat’s interesting do you have more details about the runner farm? In my small scale experiment it was difficult to have so many available runners at all times. We run a monorepo and there are changes that will hit several apps that need testing. So for example opening a PR might need 40 runners. Meanwhile other devs might need 1 or 2, etc.
- bradwood 4y agoWe use AWS Fargate with a small ec2 box orchestrating the jobs. There is a howto on Gitlab's docs that walks you through it all