Investigation: Dependency Proxy integration with runners

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Context

The Dependency Proxy is a feature that allows you to cache Docker images with GitLab. Customers use this feature for the following reasons:

• To avoid rate limiting from Docker (or to avoid paying for more bandwidth
• To speed up their pipelines - no need to download a heavy image
• To reduce reliance on external dependencies (uptime, security)

I've heard a few times from customers that they had trouble adopting the Dependency Proxy was not an optimal experience because it did not integrate with runners the way they expected.

Customer quotes:

• Example 1
• Example 2

To do

• Understand more of the problem by talking to the Runner team
• Contact customers again with more focused questions