In this article we will install gitlab runner on ubuntu server 24.04 hosted on EC2 Instance of AWS.

First, update the ubuntu package

sudo apt update

Install gitlab runner

We need to install repository gitlab runner from gitlab.com

curl -L "https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/runner/gitlab-runner/script.deb.sh" | sudo bash

Install the gitlab runner

sudo apt-get install gitlab-runner

Register gitlab runner

We share article about installing gitlab ce on this post.

This article set the gitlab runner on the instance level, so every project will run the job with this runner.

To register gitlab runner, we need to add runner via Gitlab Admin. Insert the Tags to math the tag of project or we can check the Run untagged jobs to run every project on this instance (hence, we set the runner on the instance level).

Run the code provided on this picture to our gitlab runner server.

List of Runner that work is green

Upgrade GitLab Runner

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gitlab-runner

That's it.

Hopefully this article helps you!