gitlab runner workers to land on a particular node

Ok so recently i had an issue with my gitlab runners which were spawning on spot instances. i wanted to make the worker pods for the runner sit only on on-demand nodes. This i did by the help of a node selector and then configuring same in the values.yaml and below is the snippet for same:

  config: |
    [[runners]]
      [runners.kubernetes]
        namespace = "{{.Release.Namespace}}"
        image = "ubuntu:20.04"
        [runners.kubernetes.node_selector]
          my_awsome_node_key = "on-demand"

Please note that there is also a place in the values.yaml (if you search with nodeSelector), however thiat is for them gitlab runner manager.

So my problem was that though i could get the manager to sit on the on-demand nodes but i was not able to do same for the worker gitlab runner pods and with the above code snippet i could achieve it!

Happy gitlabbing, happy helming.

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chao