Many AWS customers are using https://gitlab.com/ for their DevOps needs, including source control, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). For the SaaS edition, GitLab offers hosted runners, and customers can provide their own runners as well.
In this post, we’ll discuss how customers can maximize their CI/CD capabilities by managing their GitLab runner and executor fleet with https://aws.amazon.com/eks/.
We’ll tag the x86 runner with x86, x86-64, and amd64, thereby reflecting the most common nicknames for the architecture, and we’ll tag the arm64 runner with arm64.