// blog
Blog
News, guides, and product updates from RocketRunner.
// gitlab
5 min
Adding an AI Coding Agent to GitLab: Claude Code, OpenCode, or @rocket
The agents are broadly interchangeable. What differs is the setup. Running Claude Code or OpenCode yourself means your YAML, your keys, and your runners. @rocket sets all of that up for you and runs it on a dedicated runner it provisions.
Cyrille Sepele
Jul 5, 2026
// gitlab
3 min
We Cut Our GitLab Build Time by 59% With One Change
Shared runners throw away your cache after every job. Move to a dedicated runner where the Docker layer cache and /cache volume persist, and the same build job drops from 1m54s to 47s.
Cyrille Sepele
May 16, 2026
// gitlab
3 min
Cheap Dedicated CI/CD Runners for GitLab: Shared vs Self-Hosted vs Rented
Shared runners queue and forget everything, self-hosting hides its real cost in ops time, and renting a dedicated runner by the hour sits in between, with full isolation, no setup, and pay-as-you-go pricing.
Cyrille Sepele
May 9, 2026