On 11/22/25 20:45, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:

Hey all,

Due to runner1's recent reliability issues and general sketchiness given its nature of being a sponsored machine whose sponsor we can't get in touch with, we decided to order a new dedicated machine directly from Hetzner. This is a "public" runner, the "secure" runner is untouched by this.

The new machine, runner2.archlinux.org, is much faster than the previous runner, in theory by a factor of almost 3! It's around €63/month and will be our sole GitLab Runner for the foreseeable future. It should be able to handle pretty much all the load we put on it, I think.

In the same step, I'm also pausing runner1's GitLab Runner and I would also like to keep the machine out of our runner pool indefinitely. For our pipelines, we need a fast and reliable machine and runner1 has become frustrating to work with. Since the machine still works and it is already set up, we could add it to our geomirror pool. The reliability issues would be much less noticeable there and I think it should be "good enough" for a mirror.

What do you guys think? Would anyone like to work on that?

Cheers, Sven

We can always decommission it, if it is too unreliable for a mirror. I will take a stab at repurposing it. /Kristian