Allow picking a runner when running a pipeline

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Problem to solve

I'd like the ability to pick a specific runner when creating a pipeline via API: https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/api/pipelines.html#create-a-new-pipeline

Intended users

Unknown.

For us, this is meant to be handled by our "system" hidden from our users.

Further details

We need to have runners in different physical locations.

Because we cannot pick a runner when creating a pipeline, we have to create 1 project to map to the specific location (and therefore, runner).

As a result, we have to have a "master" project that we sync changes to multiple forks.

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Proposal

Ideally, I would be able to do the following:

• Get project
• Get project-specific runners
• Create pipeline on project specifying the runner (location) I want to use
  • So maybe add a runner_id param to the pipeline create API

Permissions and Security

I'd wager this permission would need to be owner/maintainer level.

We wouldn't want to allow devs or lower to do this.

Documentation

Testing

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

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