Changing a GitLab Runner From ''Locked to a Project'' to Shared
This quick tutorial will show you how to change a GitLab runner from ''locked'' so you can share it with another project.
I have a GitLab Runner assigned to a project that I'd like to share with another similar project. Currently, it looks like this:
Pressing the small edit icon, I can see these options:
I want to reuse this same runner, so I unchecked the 'Lock to current projects' checkbox.
Now if I go to the CI/CD settings for my other project I can see it is available, so I click "enable for this project":
Now, my Pending Job that was triggered after my first push to my repo has kicked in and is being deployed to my test Docker server. Cool.
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