/AWS-EC2-Gitlab-runner-fleet

An All-in-one aws cloudformation template to deploy a fleet of Gitlab runners onto AWS EC2 instances

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EC2-gitlab-runner-fleet

Instance:

  • ImageId: ami-084e8c05825742534 (eu-west-2)
  • InstanceType: t2.micro

Runners:

  • executor: docker
  • image: gitlab-runner:latest
  • privileged: true (docker-in-docker)

Setup:

  1. Get Gitlab runner token:
  2. Download the template.
  3. Go to AWS Cloudformation, create stack, upload template.
  4. enter a stack name, your token & a scalingGroupDesiredSize (1 will work).
  5. finish creating the stack.
  6. the ec2 instances & runners will be created.
  7. Cloudwatch logs /aws/ec2/STACK_NAME-terminal & /aws/ec2/STACK_NAME-gitlab will show the instances internal logs
  8. after less than 5 mins the runners will be visible in https://gitlab.com/groups/YOUR_GROUP/-/runners names after the instance they're running on.

Terminating an instance will result in the runner being unregistered before the instance is terminated