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For smaller projects who aren't ready to start spending yet, it's pretty trivial to spin up your own runners on a server. Not sure how it scales, but Gitlab has pretty solid guides on how to make one. It took me maybe an hour the last time I looked at it, worth checking out. Definitely easier to drop $10 than maintain that though, I'm a fan of Gitlab's CI/CD infrastructure.

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This thing of spending like an hour setting up a runner is one of the things I wanted to address with https://boxci.dev - A CI service I’ve built with a similar bring your own runners model but where “setting up the runner” consists of just installing a package, literally done in seconds :-) You should check it out.

Awesome! I’m a couple weeks from turning my attention to ci/cd for a side project. I’m going to bookmark this and I promise I’ll check it out!

To be fair, setting up a runner for Gitlab CI is very simple too. We self-host GitLab and we only have one runner on duty, but some projects have many stages that can be executed in parallel. I start a docker runner on my laptop before pushing new commits, which cuts the CI wait time by half.

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