The CI/CD Runner Survival Guide
Stop Your GitOps From Falling Apart at 2am
Covers GitHub Actions AND GitLab CI with real code examples. Written by someone who audits this stuff for a living.
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Sound Familiar?
If you've been on-call for CI/CD, you know these nightmares
Disk Space Death Spiral
Builds fail at 2am because no one set up cleanup. Docker images, build artifacts, and caches pile up until everything grinds to a halt.
"Runner Offline" Mystery
Jobs sit in queue, nobody knows why. The runner shows "online" in the UI but nothing's picking up work. Welcome to the debugging abyss.
Secrets Accidentally Logged
One debug line, credentials exposed forever. That AWS key is now in plain text in build logs. Hope you like rotating credentials at midnight.
Zombie Runners
15 registered, 4 actually work. The rest are ghosts from that server you decomissioned last year. Nobody knows which is which.
Token Expiration Surprise
Silent failures with no warning. That PAT expired last Tuesday. You only find out when deploy day turns into "why is everything broken" day.
What's Inside
Real fixes for each problem. Copy-paste configs for GitHub Actions and GitLab CI. Monitoring templates. Cleanup scripts that actually work.
Who This Is For
DevOps Engineers
Who want their weekends back and fewer 2am pages
Platform Teams
Building reliable self-service CI/CD for their org
CTOs & Tech Leads
Tired of "CI/CD is broken" being a weekly blocker
Written by Joel Hanger
Founder, TacitSoft
15+ years of infrastructure and DevOps experience. I've audited CI/CD setups at startups and Fortune 500 companies. This guide is everything I wish someone had given me before my first "production deploy at 11pm on a Friday" disaster.
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