R&D: Create a POC to solve the problem of routing jobs to runners (runner priority)

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Overview

Several customers absolutely need a mechanism to configure the routing of jobs to runners.

Use case 1- Cloud bursting for GitLab CI jobs

• One use case that has come up recently in multiple customer conversations is being able to only burst into public cloud hosted runners, (cloud bursting), when the on-premise hosted runner infrastructure is at capacity.

This use of the public cloud for burst-only workloads is critical as it enables customers to keep their cloud spend for runner infrastructure to a minimum.

Goal

• The expectation is that the proof-of-concept (POC) is to help us learn how best we can solve this problem in the most iterative way possible.

POC Implementation proposal

• We need to define the implementation proposal for the POC.

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