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Karthik Sakthivel
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AWS CodeBuild now supports managed GitLab self-hosted runners

What's new at AWS ๐Ÿ“ข

๐Ÿ’ข AWS CodeBuild now supports managed GitLab self-hosted runners

๐Ÿ’ข Customers can configure their CodeBuild projects to receive GitLab CI/CD job events and run them on CodeBuild ephemeral hosts.

๐Ÿ’ข This feature allows GitLab jobs to integrate natively with AWS, providing security and convenience through features such as
๐Ÿƒ AWS IAM
๐Ÿƒ AWS Secrets Manager
๐Ÿƒ AWS CloudTrail
๐Ÿƒ And Amazon VPC.

๐Ÿ’ข In addition to that, customers can access all compute platforms that CodeBuild offers, including Lambda, GPU-enhanced and Arm-based instances.

๐Ÿ’ข What is AWS CodeBuild:
๐Ÿƒ It is a AWS Native fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment.
๐Ÿƒ By eliminating the need of provisioning, managing, and scaling your own build servers.
๐Ÿƒ Customers can create max 5000 projects(Adjustable) per AWS CodeBuild supported regions.
๐Ÿƒ Also it supports to retain the history of a build maximum time of 1 year.

๐Ÿ’ข To get started leveraging this feature by setting up webhooks in a CodeBuild project, and updating GitLab CI YAML.

๐Ÿ“Œ Step by step implementation guide: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/sample-gitlab-runners.html

๐Ÿ“Œ Explore more about CodeBuild for GitLab or GitHub: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/gitlab-runner.html

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