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Azure Pipelines' GitHub-hosted agents go GA, and your pool label now spends money

Microsoft has made GitHub-hosted agents with pay-as-you-go pricing generally available in Azure Pipelines, billing per minute by agent SKU instead of pre-purchased parallel jobs. macOS SKUs are GA; Linux and Windows SKUs are in public preview.

Oct 10, 2026 · Tomás Vega Runners & infrastructure

GitLab Dedicated stops asking you to run the runners

GitLab Dedicated now ships with hosted runners, so single-tenant customers no longer have to build and patch their own fleet. Every other hosted CI splits the same problem differently, and each split has a rough edge.

Sep 7, 2026 · Priya Nair Runners & infrastructure

GitHub lets org admins switch off the default hosted runner labels

Organizations on Actions can now disable standard hosted runner labels such as `ubuntu-latest` at the org level, per the June 25 changelog. The toggle turns the default runner pool from an implicit allowlist into a catalogue platform teams have to maintain.

Jun 28, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo