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Just a note - you can host your own CI node (runner) for project(s) on gitlab.com. It's super simple to setup, too.

https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/linux-repository.html

This doesn't solve issues in runner-to-base comms. I had tried this kind of setup relatively recently, and almost every 10-15th build had failed for me because GitLab wasn't healthy (502 from Docker registry or problems up/downloading artifacts between stages, etc.)

Fully self-hosted looks like the only sane way. Harder to set up, but at least one can check the whole chain that way.

Sorry about GitLab.com having performance problems. Self hosted is indeed the only way to work around it in the short term. I hope you can set it up quickly. Please use the Omnibus packages that should install in a few minutes https://about.gitlab.com/installation/

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