https://hugo-blog.aitbytes.dev/tags/ci-cd/Recent content in Ci-Cd on My BlogHugoen-usThu, 11 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000https://hugo-blog.aitbytes.dev/posts/2026-06-11-gitlab-ci-playbook/Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000https://hugo-blog.aitbytes.dev/posts/2026-06-11-gitlab-ci-playbook/<p>A team at a large enterprise runs 75,000 GitLab CI jobs every day. Their setup is almost boring.</p> <p>EKS for runner management. Official Helm chart. One runner namespace per team. Fleeting plugin for autoscaling on spot instances.</p> <p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t think about it,&rdquo; they said. &ldquo;It just works.&rdquo;</p> <p>That&rsquo;s the goal. Getting there requires some deliberate architectural decisions. Here&rsquo;s what teams running GitLab CI at scale have figured out.</p> <h2 id="the-hierarchy-that-makes-everything-else-work">The Hierarchy That Makes Everything Else Work</h2> <p>GitLab CI isn&rsquo;t just about pipelines. It&rsquo;s about the organizational structure those pipelines inherit from.</p>