GitLab Runners at Scale as a Service - Fleeting Runners for CI/CD Platform Engineering

Explore a conference talk that addresses the challenges of supporting diverse CI/CD requirements across development teams through GitLab's Fleeting Runners solution. Learn how to leverage GitLab's instance executor and cloud scalability to manage runners for teams with varying needs including different operating systems, non-containerized builds, high-resource workloads, and specific toolchains. Discover how Fleeting Runners enables on-demand, custom runner deployments tailored to individual team requirements while simplifying and standardizing runner management. Gain practical insights into enhancing GitLab CI onboarding processes, improving workload handling capabilities, and reducing operational overhead in scalable DevOps environments. Understand how this flexible approach promotes best practices for optimizing CI/CD workflows and ensures infrastructure can meet the evolving needs of development teams operating at scale.