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diff --git a/doc/ci/runners/saas/windows_saas_runner.md b/doc/ci/runners/saas/windows_saas_runner.md index fd1d5ba1ab7..8fd502e8a3d 100644 --- a/doc/ci/runners/saas/windows_saas_runner.md +++ b/doc/ci/runners/saas/windows_saas_runner.md @@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ SaaS runner on Windows autoscale by launching virtual machines on the Google Cloud Platform. This solution uses an [autoscaling driver](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ci-cd/custom-executor-drivers/autoscaler/-/blob/main/docs/README.md) developed by GitLab for the [custom executor](https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/custom.html). - -These SaaS runners are in [Beta](../../../policy/experiment-beta-support.md#beta) +SaaS runners on Windows are in [Beta](../../../policy/experiment-beta-support.md#beta) and aren't recommended for production workloads. We want to keep iterating to get Windows runners in a stable state and @@ -21,27 +20,27 @@ You can follow our work towards this goal in the ## Machine types available for Windows -| Runner Tag | vCPUs | Memory | Storage | -| ---------------------- | ----- | ------ | ------- | -| `shared-windows` | 2 | 7.5 GB | 75 GB | +| Runner Tag | vCPUs | Memory | Storage | +| --------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ------- | +| `saas-windows-medium-amd64` | 2 | 7.5 GB | 75 GB | ## Supported Windows versions The Windows runner virtual machine instances do not use the GitLab Docker executor. This means that you can't specify [`image`](../../../ci/yaml/index.md#image) or [`services`](../../../ci/yaml/index.md#services) in your pipeline configuration. -Instead you have to select the [`tags`](../../../ci/yaml/index.md#tags) for the desired Windows version. You can execute your job in one of the following Windows versions: -| Version tag | Status | -|----------------|---------------| -| `windows-1809` | `Beta` | +| Version | Status | +|--------------|---------------| +| Windows 2022 | `Beta` | +| Windows 2019 | `Deprecated` (Removal in 17.0) | You can find a full list of available pre-installed software in the [pre-installed software documentation](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ci-cd/shared-runners/images/gcp/windows-containers/blob/main/cookbooks/preinstalled-software/README.md). NOTE: -Each time you run a job that requires tooling or dependencies not available in the base image, those components must be installed to the newly provisioned VM increasing the total job duration. +We are only supporting a single version of Windows at this time. ## Supported shell @@ -53,29 +52,24 @@ The `script` section of your `.gitlab-ci.yml` file therefore requires PowerShell Below is a sample `.gitlab-ci.yml` file that shows how to start using the runners for Windows: ```yaml -.shared_windows_runners: +.windows_job: tags: - - shared-windows - - windows-1809 + - saas-windows-medium-amd64 before_script: - Set-Variable -Name "time" -Value (date -Format "%H:%m") - echo ${time} - echo "started by ${GITLAB_USER_NAME}" -stages: - - build - - test - build: extends: - - .shared_windows_runners + - .windows_job stage: build script: - echo "running scripts in the build job" test: extends: - - .shared_windows_runners + - .windows_job stage: test script: - echo "running scripts in the test job" |