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So our small company is currently using the Gitlab shared runners for our CICD tests. So far its been fine but as we add more and more tests the time to run the tests keeps going up. We have parallelized the tests to keep the total run time down. But thats also burns more minutes.
Last month we used up more than 32000 runner minutes.
I was thinking of buying a mini-pc and just have that be a dedicated runner machine. It should run the tests faster since it has a local docker cache and the CPU is more powerful too.
Just based on very minimal research I was thinking of something like this. If performs at par or better than the shared runner it should pay for itself in just 3 months.
Is this a bad idea?
Does anyone have experience with this kind of setup?
Recommendations for which machines to use?
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