diff --git a/ansible/playbooks/role-rocky-gitlab-runner.yml b/ansible/playbooks/role-rocky-gitlab-runner.yml
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+---
+# Creates a Gitlab runner and registers it w/ tags
+- name: Install and Provision Gitlab Runner
+  hosts: gitlab_runners
+  become: true
+  vars_files:
+  - vars/common.yml
+  - vars/gitlab_runner.yml
+  - vars/vaults/encpass.yml
+
+  # This is to try to avoid the handler issue in pre/post tasks
+  handlers:
+    - import_tasks: handlers/main.yml
+
+  pre_tasks:
+    - name: Check if ansible cannot be run here
+      stat:
+        path: /etc/no-ansible
+      register: no_ansible
+
+    - name: Verify if we can run ansible
+      assert:
+        that:
+          - "not no_ansible.stat.exists"
+        success_msg: "We are able to run on this node"
+        fail_msg: "/etc/no-ansible exists - skipping un on this node"
+
+    - name: Install SELinux packages
+      package:
+        name: python3-policycoreutils.noarch
+        state: present
+
+  tasks:
+    - name: Install and configure runner
+      import_tasks: tasks/gitlab-runner.yml
+
+  roles:
+    - role: riemers.gitlab-runner
+      state: present
+
+  post_tasks:
+    - name: Touching run file that ansible has ran here
+      file:
+        path: /var/log/ansible.run
+        state: touch
+        mode: '0644'
+        owner: root
+        group: root
diff --git a/ansible/playbooks/tasks/gitlab-runner.yml b/ansible/playbooks/tasks/gitlab-runner.yml
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+# included tasks from role-rocky-gitlab-runner
+---
+- name: Download and install gitlab runner rpm
+  block:
+    - name: Install gitlab gpg key
+      ansible.builtin.rpm_key:
+        state: present
+        key: https://packages.gitlab.com/runner/gitlab-runner/gpgkey/runner-gitlab-runner-366915F31B487241.pub.gpg
+        fingerprint: "3018 3AC2 C4E2 3A40 9EFB  E705 9CE4 5ABC 8807 21D4"
+
+    - name: Download gitlab runner RPM
+      get_url:
+        url: "https://packages.gitlab.com/runner/gitlab-runner/packages/el/8/gitlab-runner-13.10.0-1.x86_64.rpm/download.rpm"
+        checksum: "sha256:3baa809dced03e9fbec615b378c85d0224306ca270ef5cb9ed64de982857ea5d"
+        dest: /tmp/gitlab-runner.rpm
+      register: download_rpm
+
+    - name: Install downloaded RPM
+      dnf:
+        name: /tmp/gitlab-runner.rpm
+      when: download_rpm.changed != 0
+  when: do_install == 'true'
+  become: true
+
+- name: Create gitlab-runner user
+  become: yes
+  user:
+    name: gitlab-runner
+    shell: /bin/bash
+    system: yes
diff --git a/ansible/playbooks/vars/gitlab_runner.yml b/ansible/playbooks/vars/gitlab_runner.yml
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+---
+gitlab_runner_coordinator_url: https://git.rockylinux.org
+gitlab_runner_registration_token: "{{ _reg_token }}"
+gitlab_runner_runners:
+  - name: "{{ ansible_fqdn }}"
+    executor: shell
+    tags: []
+
+gitlab_runner_timeout_stop_seconds: 60