GitLab / GitLab Runner Demos

With visual examples, in this video, we discuss how to use Prometheus to monitor your runners. We go from describing how to activate the runner Prometheus metrics endpoints to creating queries using PromQL and how we use Jsonnet at GitLab to create the Grafana dashboards for operating the GitLab SaaS Runner Fleet.

In this video, we demo how to use the create a CI Runner API to automatically create and register a GitLab Runner to an instance, group, or project.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/runners.html#register-a-new-runner

This video provides an overview and demo of the workflow to create a GitLab Runner as of GitLab 16.0. Links mentioned in the video are provided below.

API docs:

- REST: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/users.html#create-a-ci-runner

- GraphQL: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/graphql/reference/#mutationrunnercreate

Feedback issue:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/387993

Next Runner Token Architecture:

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/architecture/blueprints/runner_tokens/#next-gitlab-runner-token-architecture

Demo of the first iteration of https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/29445

This video goes over a new Rake task that was recently added to enable creating test data so that developers are able to easily replicate a realistic workload of thousands of runners and millions of jobs.

Documentation link: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/rake_tasks.html#seeding-a-runner-fleet-test-environment

This is a code walkthrough and demo of the Taskscaler library being integrated into the GitLab Runner. This is part of the work to replace Docker Machine and evolve the Runner infrastructure. See https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/architecture/blueprints/runner_scaling/index.html.

This video provides an overview of the setup and configuration required in GitLab Runner to use Podman as a drop-in replacement for Docker when GitLab Runners is configured to use the Docker executor.

https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/docker.html#use-podman-to-run-docker-commands-beta

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/runners/configure_runners.html#artifact-attestation

In this step-by-step demo, we will explore how to configure your .gitlab-ci.yml file on GitLab SaaS to run jobs on the GitLab SaaS Runners for macOS (limited availability).

In this video we provide an overview of how to install GitLab Runner on a Kubernetes cluster using the GitLab Runner Operator available on OperatorHub.io

Overview of the FIPS 140-2 Compliant GitLab Runner released in GitLab Runner 14.7

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/27886
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/28814
https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/