Source: kyosenaharidza.medium.com
How to Create Your Own Gitlab Runner!Category: Ubuntu, Docker, gitlab
You can turn one of your powerful computers/cloud instances into one if you feel like the default gitlab runners aren’t powerful or fast enough.
And, most importantly, you can configure your runner extensively.
Inside it, you can configure a lot of stuff, but for my use case, I simply need to change the “privileged” variable from “false” to “true”, so that my runner can go through the pesky proxies that I mentioned earlier (although I don’t recommend doing this depending on your use case, as it can be dangerous).
Another advantage to using custom runners is that you can explicitly tell gitlab to use your custom runners for certain jobs.
Keep in mind that this means you have to maintain your runners by yourself, as gitlab won’t maintain it for you.
And, most importantly, you can configure your runner extensively.
Inside it, you can configure a lot of stuff, but for my use case, I simply need to change the “privileged” variable from “false” to “true”, so that my runner can go through the pesky proxies that I mentioned earlier (although I don’t recommend doing this depending on your use case, as it can be dangerous).
Another advantage to using custom runners is that you can explicitly tell gitlab to use your custom runners for certain jobs.
Keep in mind that this means you have to maintain your runners by yourself, as gitlab won’t maintain it for you.
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