Unable to Create Self-Managed Runner in GitLab CI/CD Module 7 Playground

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#1

Hi Community,

I am currently working on the GitLab CI/CD course, Module 7, in the playground environment. When trying to create a “Self-managed runner,” I fill in all the required fields such as Tags, Description, and Time, but upon clicking the Create Runner button, I am redirected to an error page.

I would like to understand:

  1. What could be causing this issue?
  2. Are there any specific steps I should follow to resolve it?
  3. Could this be related to playground limitations?

Looking forward to your guidance!

Thank you,
Prabakaran

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#2

The redirection is a bug and is confusing, but actually, if you go back to the Runners page and look, you will see that your instance runner really was created. As long as you create it to run “untagged jobs”, you should be able to use your runner in the playground.

#3

Thank you for being so supportive.

#4

Looking further into the playground, it appears that it was previously fixed to create a runner “out of the box”, so you should not have to create a runner. How this broke again I don’t know, but I’ve raised this with the lab engineers. I hope to have an answer for you soon.