# Scale software delivery pipelines in isolation without owning the runner fleet

DevFeed: [Scale software delivery pipelines in isolation without owning the runner fleet](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/scale-software-delivery-pipelines-in-isolation-without-owning-the-runner-fleet-95.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://about.gitlab.com/blog/hosted-runners-for-gitlab-dedicated/>)

Author: Kyurim Rhee

Published: 2026-08-25T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [GitLab](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/gitlab.md>)

Topics: [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ci.md>), [GitLab](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gitlab.md>), [Software as a service](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/saas.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [Provisioning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/provisioning.md>)

Tags: [agentic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci.md>), [compliance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compliance.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [devsecops-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devsecops-platform.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [operations](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/operations.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [saas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/saas.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [software-delivery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-delivery.md>), [workflows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflows.md>)

## AI overview

GitLab presents Hosted Runners for GitLab Dedicated, a fully managed CI execution SaaS offering with isolated runner infrastructure. Each job runs in a newly provisioned VM that is deleted after completion, helping enterprises address security, compliance, scalability, reliability, and runner-operations demands without owning the runner fleet.

## Source excerpt

Many enterprises choose GitLab Dedicated for a clear reason: a secure and compliant, single-tenant GitLab instance, managed by GitLab. As agentic workflows drive more pipeline volume, full data isolation and runner infrastructure operational burden become a challenge. This leads to the question, "Does owning the runner fleet still make sense?" With GitLab Dedicated, there is no more need to provision, patch, build, and scale your own runner fleet. Hosted Runners for GitLab Dedicated handles the heavy lifting and delivers a seamless experience across the entire software development lifecycle so your team can focus on shipping. Hosted Runners for GitLab Dedicated provides a runner fleet isolated from other customers. To support job-level security, each job runs in a newly provisioned, isolated VM that is deleted after the job completes. We provide a scalable and highly reliable runner fleet to support your bursty CI demands and resiliency needs. Creating and managing runners is self-serviceable through Switchboard (GitLab Dedicated management console). The runner ownership trade-off: Cost vs. user experience Pipeline load can be unpredictable. To account for this, runner infrastructure can be over-provisioned to give developers the best experience and maintain low wait times. But this drives up the infrastructure cost. Conversely, under-provisioning can save on infrastructure cost, but your developers will waste time waiting for their CI jobs to be picked up. Efforts to fine-tune this balance can monopolize your platform team's time. Shift runner operations to GitLab while maintaining control Hosted Runners for GitLab Dedicated is a fully managed CI execution SaaS offering. It's backed by a high-performing and reliable runner infrastructure. Key benefits include: Supports compliance: Full isolation/single-tenant runners with same data residency as GitLab Dedicated. Job level security: "One runner for one job" -- hosted runners run every job in a standalone, short-lived