Does the runner run inside the installed app?

QUESTION

Does the runner run inside the installed app?

ANSWER

No, the runner is outside of the installed app but still in the customer's cloud account.

By default, the runner is part of an Auto Scaling Group (ASG) and EC2 VM created by a CloudFormation stack that is generated by the Nuon control plane. The software vendor shares the stack with their customer who deploys it in their cloud account.

The stack creates a Runner Management Mode (mng) systemd service that orchestrates and manages the runner container within a docker systemd service.

The mng daemon is responsible for fetching the install runner image version from the Nuon control plane and overseeing the lifecycle of the runner process.

DOCS

• More About the Runner

• Runner Management Mode