## Overview This epic will outline the plan and timeline for the deprecation and EOL for the GitLab Runner Docker Machine Executor. ## Timeline - table view | Milestone | Date | | ------ | ------ | | Deprecation announcement for Docker Machine | 2024-10-17| | | EOL GitLab maintained Docker Machine project fork + end of support for the Docker Machine executor |2027-05-20| ## FAQ | Question | Response | | ------ | ------ | |Will GitLab develop plug-ins for all of the Cloud provider plug-ins that docker-machine currently supports? Example: DigitalOcean | No - GitLab plans to maintain the Fleeting plug-ins for AWS, GCE and Azure. The plug-in framework was developed so that support for other clouds can easily be added without relying on GitLab’s development roadmap. | |Will GitLab accept community contributions to the Docker Machine Fork?|As of 2024–10-17, GitLab will no longer accept community contributions to the Docker Machine fork. |