F-Droid relies heavily on GitLab CI, and that means we need Runners. We use the gitlab.com shared runners, as well as a number that are maintained by other organizations. These runners need to be oriented towards stability. It is easy to cause issues that cause jobs to fail mysteriously. If the dev doesn't know it was caused by runner instability, it can easily cause someone to spend hours trying to track down a problem.
Shared GitLab Runners on Azure
When there is time available donated by Azure, then there can be Shared GitLab Runners on Azure. This is maintained by @proletarius101.
OSUOSL runners
OSUOSL maintains some runners that are shared across a number of projects. Maintained by OSUOSL: support@osuosl.org
- ci-aarch64-runner1-osuosl-docker-fdroid
- ci-x64-runner1-osuosl-docker-fdroid
- ci-x64-runner2-osuosl-docker-fdroid
https://osuosl.org/services/hosting/details/#ci-cd-hardware-resources
pep-runner
Will be removed soon, the host is shutting down
quay.io/gitlab/gitlab-runner-docker-cleanup is always running on this runner to clean up Docker cruft.
https://gitlab.com/groups/fdroid/-/runners/534721#/
@jspricke maintains this instance, which is donated by pep.security. It is currently devoted to running checkupdates.
- 4 CPU
- 8GB RAM
- 100GB disk
fdroid-gitlab-runner-osuosl-01
/usr/share/gitlab-runner/clear-docker-cache is always running on this runner as a weekly cronjob to clean up Docker cruft.
https://gitlab.com/groups/fdroid/-/runners/535145
@pmmayero manages this instance in a VM provided in the OSUOSL cloud.
- 8 CPU
- 16GB RAM
- 80GB disk
- KVM shared to containers
fdroid-gitlab-runner-osuosl-02
/usr/share/gitlab-runner/clear-docker-cache is always running on this runner as a weekly cronjob to clean up Docker cruft.
https://gitlab.com/groups/fdroid/-/runners/43196296
@pmmayero manages this instance in a VM provided in the OSUOSL cloud.
- 8 CPU
- 16GB RAM
- 80GB disk
- KVM shared to containers
Please note that for the gitlab runners to successfully run the android emulator on docker, the priviledged key on the /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml should be set to true
Below is a sample of the runner config.toml on fdroid-gitlab-runner-osuosl-02
concurrent = 1
check_interval = 0
shutdown_timeout = 0
[session_server]
session_timeout = 1800
[[runners]]
name = "fdroid-gitlab-runner-osuosl-02"
url = "https://gitlab.com"
id = 123654789654
token = "insert-gitlab-token-here"
token_obtained_at =
token_expires_at =
executor = "docker"
[runners.custom_build_dir]
[runners.cache]
MaxUploadedArchiveSize = 0
[runners.cache.s3]
[runners.cache.gcs]
[runners.cache.azure]
[runners.docker]
tls_verify = true
image = "docker:dind"
privileged = true
disable_entrypoint_overwrite = false
oom_kill_disable = false
disable_cache = false
volumes = ["/cache"]
shm_size = 0
network_mtu = 0