Unable to successfully register self hosted GitLab runner via Management project Template

Hi,

Tagging GitLab runner group members: @DarrenEastman, @atanayno, @nelbacha, @erushton

Seeing that the GitLab Managed Apps have now been deprecated, I have attempted to recreate my GitLab Runner via the Management project Template (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/clusters/management_project_template.html) via a GCP K8 cluster.

Following the instructions, I'm not able to get the GitLab Runner to register successfully in https://gitlab.com/groups/<group_name>/-/settings/ci_cd. I have substituted the apppropriate values for both gitlabUrl and runnerRegistrationToken using CI variables, however the runner doesn't register. Only by hardcoding these values into applications/gitlab-runner/values.yaml does my runner 'successfully' register.

Once I was able to register my runner, my pipelines are now indefinitely stuck.

As a test, I manually created and registered a GitLab Runner in my Docker instance and everything works as expected with pipelines running against my Docker container.

I look to be having the same issue as https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68624286/gitlab-ci-cd-job-is-pending-even-though-group-runner-is-available

This, unfortunately, is now blocking all of our pipelines from running so it would be much appreciated on any guidance on how get around this issue.