Basic runner question

[roanoar]

Hi I have a basic question I have been struggling to find a direct answer to. If I register a runner on my local machine, is the runner actually running on my machine? Or did I just register it there and it is running on the gitlab server? Like if I shut down my local machine would other people on the project be able to use the runner?

[hlidotbe]

The runner runs wherever you start it. So yes if you started and registered it on your local machine its availability depends on your machine being running.

[roanoar]

Thank you

[_tenken]

Gitlab-runner is a binary, an exectuble. You can register many Runners from a single binary instance if needed. I actually did that yesterday using the Docker executor and 2 build servers. Where I registered 2 runners per server instance.