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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 premium user I cannot refuse to take the bundled CI minutes on their shitty SaaS runners.

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That’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.

We 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

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