17.2 Runner Group iteration plan

The details in this issue cover the top priority work items for the Runner team for the 17.2 release.

Kickoff Video

Cross Functional Programs

Cells 1.0 RunnerP1

•   S Cells 1.0: `ci_runners` sharding key (gitlab#442395) • Pedro Pombeiro • 18.6 • On track
•   XS Add sharding key to ci_runner_projects (1 ta... (gitlab#459996 - closed) • Pedro Pombeiro • 17.2
•   XS Make ci_runner_namespaces sharding key non-n... (gitlab#446169 - closed) • Pedro Pombeiro • 17.2
•   Prevent associating projects from different org... (gitlab#467237 - closed) • Pedro Pombeiro • 17.2 • On track

Google + GitLab GCP integration

• Consolidate Kuberentes installation under k8s m... (gitlab-org/ci-cd/runner-tools/grit#82 - closed) • Hannes Hörl • 17.2

Runner Core 🏃

Customer collaboration RunnerP1

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/account-management/eastern-north-america/verizon-group/verizon-vcg/-/issues/50 @ratchade @DarrenEastman @hoegaarden

Bugs 🐛

RunnerP1

• Security fix for CVE-2024-24786, CVE-2023-36308... (gitlab#450307 - closed) • Ash McKenzie • 17.6
• gitlab-org/gitlab-runner#36991+s
• AWS IAM Authentication Method not working since... (#36788 - closed) • Romuald Atchadé - OOO until Jan 11th, 2026 • 17.2
• Pipeline script injection by adding arbitrary c... (gitlab#467181 - closed) • Hannes Hörl • 17.10
• Uploading artifacts fails with 500 error (gitlab#444271 - closed) • Max Fan • 18.1
• S3 artifacts provider on GitLab: ERROR: Downloa... (#3213 - closed) • Arran Walker • 17.2
• Updating/initializing submodules... ERROR: Job ... (#3894 - closed) • Arran Walker • 17.2 vintage
• Runner clone url not used in Git LFS Batch API ... (gitlab#24992 - closed) • Arran Walker • 17.2 vintage
• Runner unable to fetch with Shell executor due ... (#4563 - closed) • Unassigned
• Role.rbac.authorization.k8s.io "gitlab-runner-a... (gitlab-org/gl-openshift/gitlab-runner-operator#206 - closed) • Georgi N. Georgiev | GitLab • 17.2
• GitLab Runner operator 1.25 will not deploy the... (gitlab-org/gl-openshift/gitlab-runner-operator#208 - closed) • Georgi N. Georgiev | GitLab • 17.2
• Upgrading GitLab Runner operator to 1.25 fails ... (gitlab-org/gl-openshift/gitlab-runner-operator#209 - closed) • Georgi N. Georgiev | GitLab • 17.2
• Runner pod is not creating any resources inside... (gitlab-org/gl-openshift/gitlab-runner-operator#212 - closed) • Georgi N. Georgiev | GitLab • 17.2

Stretch

• Concerned with how broad the cluster permission... (gitlab-org/gl-openshift/gitlab-runner-operator#92) • Unassigned • Backlog
• Investigate cause of Runner pods stuck in Pendi... (#28930 - closed) • Romuald Atchadé - OOO until Jan 11th, 2026 • 17.11
• FF_KUBERNETES_HONOR_ENTRYPOINT feature not working (#37243 - closed) • Love Bhardwaj • Backlog
• Gitlab runner upgrade removes all cache (volumes) (#30876 - closed) • Arran Walker • 17.2
• per-build networking breaks DNS configuration f... (#27867 - closed) • Arran Walker • 18.1

Features

RunnerP1

Runner Autoscaling (Docker Machine replacement)

•   GitLab Runner Fleeting plugin for AWS EC2 insta... (#29222 - closed) • Arran Walker • 17.2

CI Log rendering: Timestamps to CI logs

•   [Feature flag] Rollout of `parse_ci_job_timesta... (gitlab#464785 - closed) • Pedro Pombeiro • 17.2

Other

• Permit configuration of Runner livenessProbe an... (gitlab-org/charts/gitlab-runner#545 - closed) • Romuald Atchadé - OOO until Jan 11th, 2026 • 17.2
• Fix k8s entrypoint management for build container (#37277 - closed) • Love Bhardwaj • 18.4
• Ability to turn on/off running umask 0000 comma... (#28867 - closed) • Romuald Atchadé - OOO until Jan 11th, 2026 • 17.2
• Enable FF_RETRIEVE_POD_WARNING_EVENTS by default (#37834 - closed) • Romuald Atchadé - OOO until Jan 11th, 2026 • 17.2
• Add support for Red Hat OpenShift 4.16 to the G... (gitlab-org/gl-openshift/gitlab-runner-operator#203 - closed)

CI Steps - Minimal

• Simplify CI/CD Steps documentation (gitlab#467435 - closed) • Cameron Swords • 17.6
• Implement Streaming of StepResults (step-runner#59) • Unassigned • Backlog
• Implement Steps service `FollowLogs` API (step-runner#36 - closed) • Axel von Bertoldi • 17.3

Stretch

•   Allow volume mounts to be configured on a job l... (#28121) • Unassigned • Backlog
•   Improve error message for failure to create cac... (#37273) • Unassigned • Backlog

Maintenance 🏚

RunnerP1

•   Update GitLab Runner Operator in the Red Hat Ec... (gitlab-org/gl-openshift/gitlab-runner-operator#210) • Unassigned • Backlog
•   Create documentation on how to configure Runner... (#37796 - closed) • Hannes Hörl, Romuald Atchadé - OOO until Jan 11th, 2026+ • 17.2
• Add support for Red Hat OpenShift 4.16 to the G... (gitlab-org/gl-openshift/gitlab-runner-operator#203 - closed) • Georgi N. Georgiev | GitLab • 17.2

Stretch

•   Operator release pipeline should check the stat... (gitlab-org/gl-openshift/gitlab-runner-operator#189 - closed) • Georgi N. Georgiev | GitLab • 17.2
• Add support for Red Hat OpenShift 4.15 to the G... (gitlab-org/gl-openshift/gitlab-runner-operator#202 - closed)

R&D 🤔

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Fleet Visibility 🎢

Bugs

• Updating runner tags causes a 500 status code (gitlab#433256 - closed) • Pedro Pombeiro • 17.2 backend
• Runner cannot be updated via runnerUpdate mutat... (gitlab#442708 - closed) • Unassigned • 17.3 backend

Features

Stretch

CI Insights - Viable

•   GraphQL: Add support to compute mean duration o... (gitlab#454310 - closed) • Pedro Pombeiro • 17.5 • On track
•   GraphQL: Add filtering support to Resolvers::Pr... (gitlab#454311 - closed) • Rutvik Chandla • 17.5 • At risk
•   GraphQL: Add pipeline duration histogram suppor... (gitlab#454312 - closed) • Pedro Pombeiro • 17.9 • On track
•   GraphQL: Add additional grouping support for Pi... (gitlab#454313 - closed) • Pedro Pombeiro • 17.2 • On track
• Implement Ci::FinishedPipelineChSyncEvent (gitlab#470078 - closed) • Pedro Pombeiro • 17.2 • On track

• Update failed pipelines metric to failure rate (gitlab#469592 - closed) • Pedro Pombeiro • 17.2
• Update text of Total pipeline runs metric (gitlab#469593 - closed) • Pedro Pombeiro • 17.2

Other

•   Internal Event Tracking: Add instrumentation to... (gitlab#467284 - closed) • Pedro Pombeiro • 17.2 • On track
•   Expose runner managers in runner REST API (gitlab#460903 - closed) • Chandra Kiran G • 17.2
•   Update definition of active runner (gitlab#469577 - closed) • Pedro Pombeiro • 17.2 • On track

User Experience ✈ 🖌

•   https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ux-research/-/issues/3007+