Cloud-Runner

Skip the drama of slow queues and mystery invoices. Connect your GitLab group to Cloud-Runner, register a runner token, choose a machine profile (CPU, RAM, disk), and set how many jobs can run at once. In under ten minutes, your projects run on dedicated compute with a flat monthly price - no metered minutes, no bill spikes. Teams lock in a CI budget they can trust, while leads adjust capacity with simple controls instead of negotiating cloud quotas.

Day to day, developers just push code. Each job lands on a tuned runner with warm caches for Docker layers and common package managers, so install and build steps fly. Prebuilt images include Git, BuildKit, language toolchains, and optional databases and browsers for integration tests, trimming setup time. Split tests into shards, run suites in parallel, and store artifacts in S3-compatible buckets. A warm pool keeps queues short, and per-stage timing makes bottlenecks obvious.

During releases, scale concurrency inside your plan to finish matrices quickly: compile multiple targets, sign binaries, publish containers, and deploy through environments without reconfiguring infrastructure. Runners support Docker-in-Docker or rootless builds, service containers, and private registries. Variables and secrets are scoped per project and cleared after each run. Need to shave minutes? Cloud-Runner engineers review your YAML, align caching keys, reorder steps, recommend job graphs, and share before/after metrics so you see the gains. more