**Purpose:** Deploy a team-operated runner as the first phase of the staged rollout. This is a controlled environment where the team directly monitors and manages the runner to validate the script-to-steps implementation before wider deployment. **Rollout Phase:** Pilot (team deployed runner, team monitor failures, team creates set of test projects) **Technical Approach:** Use GRIT (GitLab Runner Infrastructure Toolkit) to deploy the pilot runner stack. GRIT provides Terraform modules that embody best practices for runner configuration and operation. **Checklist** - [x] Pilot runners - [x] step-runner - [x] gitlab-runner - [x] grit - [x] Pilot runners managers - [x] linux arm64 - [x] linux amd64 - [x] windows - [ ] GCP monitoring dashboards - [x] per runner manager - [x] per project (step-runner / gitlab-runner / grit) - [x] combined - [x] metrics for steps native jobs - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/step-runner/-/work_items/318+s - [ ] measure % of usage of GitLab Functions for GitLab.com projects - https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/work_items/19959+s - [x] Deployer blue-green deployment - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/step-runner/-/work_items/383+s - [x] step-runner - [x] gitlab-runner - [x] grit - [ ] Switch projects to running pilot runners - [x] step-runner - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/step-runner/-/issues/379+s - [x] gitlab-runner - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/step-runner/-/issues/381+s - [x] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/step-runner/-/issues/413+s - [x] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/step-runner/-/issues/414+s - [x] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/step-runner/-/issues/415+s - [x] grit - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/step-runner/-/issues/380+s - [x] Full windows support - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/step-runner/-/issues/401+s - [x] Continuous deployment of new step-runner and gitlab-runner code within pilot-runners - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/step-runner/-/issues/382+s - [ ] Documentation - [x] pilot runners READMEs - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ci-cd/runner-tools/pilot-runners/-/blob/main/README.md?ref_type=heads - [ ] SREs docs - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/step-runner/-/work_items/321+s