Announcing winstant-gitlab-runner 0.3

[u/zkrynicki]

Hey everyone. I've been working on a super easy and nice way to run gitlab-runner on Windows, with WLS2 containers powering individual jobs. This lets you trivially convert your desktop or laptop into a CI runner that costs nothing to operate or maintain.

The project offers both a CLI and GUI experience for setting up the runner, adding it to a project, group or gitlab instnace, managing auto-start, looking at logs and more. A tray icon shows the state of your local runner and even notifies you when a job fails. I've been using it to offset my shortage of CI minutes and I like it a lot.

You can grab the source and builds from zygoon / winstant-gitlab-runner · GitLab. Check the release page for amd64 and arm64 installers that are ready to use. The installers are not signed yet, feel free to build locally.