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[easton]

That requires on-prem hardware (or I guess you could spin VMs up in the cloud, but I doubt that works out cheaper than hosted CI).

[dnsmichi → easton]

Hi, GitLab team member here. You can spin up a cloud instance, or dive deeper into auto-scaling the GitLab CI/CD runner: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/11/23/autoscale-ci-runner...

Depending on your needs, automatically managing and deploying this could also be interesting. We have started a new project called the "5 min production app": https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/12/15/first-code-to-ci-cd...

Alternatively, partners provide hosted runners, if that is an option for you: https://partners.gitlab.com/English/directory/search?f0=Serv...

[rpadovani → easton]

It definitely is. On AWS, you can run it on spot instances with autoscaling. Including also networking price, it is an order of magnitude cheaper.