Gitlab has introduced a five-user limit for free groups

Is anyone happy with Gitlab public runners?

I've found them extremely unreliable both in my free account (every failure takes 1-2 mins away from my 50 minutes!) and in my employers paid subscription so we self run but run into issues with not being able to scale runners enough to meet developers demands.

Its also super annoying that you can't use your own docker containers hosted on ECR on public runners (no way to provide auth)

> Its also super annoying that you can't use your own docker containers hosted on ECR on public runners (no way to provide auth)

Yeah this is odd - it's slightly annoying having to docker login as part of jobs.