Managed Self-Hosted Runners

Fast, secure, cost-effective CI/CD runners for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and more

Stop overpaying for CI/CD minutes and fighting with flaky runners. We deploy and manage self-hosted runners on your infrastructure—or ours—so every build is fast, reliable, and cost-effective.

The problem#

Teams running serious CI/CD pipelines hit these walls:

• Expensive cloud-hosted minutes — GitHub Actions and GitLab SaaS minutes add up fast, especially for large teams
• Slow builds — Shared runners have cold caches and limited resources
• Security concerns — Your code runs on infrastructure you don't control
• Self-hosted is a pain — Managing runners means OS patches, Docker cache, autoscaling, and monitoring

Our solution#

We run your CI/CD runners as a managed service. You get the performance and cost benefits of self-hosted with none of the operational burden.

Supported platforms#

We support all major CI/CD platforms with self-hosted runner management.

Primary platforms#

Additional platforms#

What's included#

• Runner infrastructure — Provisioned, hardened, and monitored compute for your CI/CD jobs
• Autoscaling — Scale from zero to hundreds of concurrent jobs based on queue depth
• Cache management — Persistent Docker layer cache and dependency caches for fast builds
• Security hardening — Ephemeral VMs, network isolation, no persistent state between jobs
• Monitoring & alerting — Job queue depth, build times, failure rates, infrastructure health
• OS and runtime updates — We keep runners patched and up-to-date

How it works#

1. Connect — We set up runner registration with your CI/CD platform (GitHub org, GitLab instance, Buildkite organization, etc.)
2. Configure — Define runner labels, resource profiles, and autoscaling rules tailored to your workloads
3. Run — Your workflows use self-hosted runners transparently—just update the runner selector in your pipeline config
4. Optimize — We monitor build times and costs, tuning resources and caches continuously

Architecture options#

Dedicated infrastructure (recommended)#

Runners on dedicated compute in your cloud account or our managed infrastructure. Full isolation, predictable performance. Works with all platforms.

Kubernetes-based#

Runners as Kubernetes pods for dynamic scaling and efficient resource utilization:

• GitHub Actions — Actions Runner Controller (ARC)
• GitLab CI — Kubernetes executor
• Buildkite — Agent Stack for Kubernetes
• CircleCI — Container runners
• Azure DevOps — Kubernetes agent pools
• Woodpecker CI — Native Kubernetes support

Cloud autoscaling#

Leverage cloud-native autoscaling for burst capacity:

• AWS — Buildkite Elastic CI Stack, EC2 Auto Scaling Groups
• Azure — Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) for Azure DevOps
• GCP — Managed Instance Groups

Hybrid#

Mix of dedicated runners for heavy workloads and on-demand spot/preemptible instances for burst capacity. Optimize costs while maintaining performance SLAs.

Key benefits#

• 50-70% cost savings vs cloud-hosted runner minutes
• 2-5x faster builds with persistent caches and right-sized compute
• Ephemeral execution — every job starts clean, no cross-contamination
• Your infrastructure — code and artifacts never leave your security boundary
• Zero ops for your team — we handle everything

Who it's for#

• Teams spending $500+/month on CI/CD minutes (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, etc.)
• Organizations with security requirements that preclude shared/cloud runners
• Companies with large mono-repos or long build pipelines
• Teams needing ARM64, GPU, or specialized runner environments
• Organizations migrating between CI/CD platforms and needing unified runner management
• Teams running Jenkins or Woodpecker CI who want managed infrastructure without the ops burden

Getting started#

Related services#

• DevOps as a Service
• CI/CD Audit
• GitOps