Setting up GitLab EKS Fargate Runners in just one hour

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This post details the setup of GitLab Runners on AWS EKS Fargate, overcoming limitations of ECS Fargate by leveraging Kubernetes' ability to run any image. It demonstrates the scalability and flexibility of this approach for CI/CD pipelines by using AWS CloudShell, EKS Blueprints with Karpenter autoscaler and Fargate, and a Helm install for GitLab Runner. The results show the ability to run parallel jobs and Auto DevOps pipelines, highlighting the reduced SRE work compared to traditional ECS Fargate.