Allow or disallow particular Runner configurations in GitLab

Release notes

In organisations that let different teams set up and manage their own (group) runner fleets, misconfigurations can have disproportional performance impact on the shared Gitlab instance, and may be hard to track down and resolve.

Problem to solve

GitLab admins can not currently prevent certain undesired runner configurations to be used, or prescribe certain desired configurations.

Proposal

  1. Implement a mechanism that lets Runner upload its config.toml to GitLab.
  2. Implement allow/disallow lists in the GitLab admin interface.
  3. Implement rejection and/or overwriting logic.

Alternative

Improving the utility of config.toml templates, see for example:

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