How to provision 100 AWS Graviton GitLab Spot Runners in 10 Minutes for $2/hour

4 · · Aug. 17, 2021, 8:44 p.m.
Managing elastically scaled or highly available compute infrastructures is one of the key challenges the cloud was built for. Application scaling concerns can be handled by cloud services that are purpose designed, rigorously tested, and continually improved. This article dives into some specific enablement automation that brings the benefits of AWS Autoscaling Groups (ASG) to runner management. There are benefits to both the largest fleets and single instance runners. Embedded in this article i...