Platform & DevOps·Pipelines, promotion and GitOps
the job waits in a queue because every machine that could run it is busy, and nobody thinks of that as capacity.
Pipeline runner
Also calledrunner, build agent, executor
The machine or container that executes a pipeline job. Runners are a capacity pool with all the usual properties — queue depth, saturation, cost and cold start — and queue time is invisible in most build dashboards, which report only how long the job itself took. They are also the most credential-rich compute in an organisation, since they hold the keys to deploy.