Ideas for a major release

[kayman-mk]

Release date: ... months ahead

Stuff to implement

• use pre-registered runner only. (runner_gitlab.preregistered_runner_token_ssm_parameter_name) (When using the newer gitlab authentication token the SSM parameter should not be created by this module #1225)
• rotate the runner token automatically and manage the SSM parameter within the module (Handling of the New Auto Token Rotation Feature #1196)

All other registration methods were deprecated in GitLab 15.6 (November 2022). They are scheduled for removal in GitLab 18.0 (May 2025)

[abeluck]

I think it would also be nice for the next major release to include the deprecation/removal of the old authentication token system (like here).

Also I could contribute an example of using the gitlab provider to deploy gitlab runners entirely in one terraform run, based on our implementation.

However I would note that I had to workaround the issue #590 because in our case we could not accept that you had to run the terraform execution twice to have the separate cache.

[ben-ganley]

After seeing frequent spot interruptions, it would be good to change the default setting for runner_worker_docker_autoscaler_asg.spot_allocation_strategy from lowest-price to price-capacity-optimized which is the AWS recommended default per https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-fleet-allocation-strategy.html