Architecture
Warm pool
Quick answer
A warm pool is a set of pre-booted machines held ready to accept jobs immediately.
A warm pool is a set of pre-booted machines held ready to accept jobs immediately.
Why it matters
It is the difference between a three-second and a sixty-second start. The provider absorbs the idle cost, which is a large part of what you pay a managed platform for.
Your next build could be twice as fast, at half the price
Start free. Migrating away is the same one line, and we publish that diff too.
Related
Control planeThe control plane is the part of a system that makes scheduling and configuration decisions, as distinct from the data plane that executes the work.Data planeThe data plane is the part of a system that executes the actual workload — in CI, the runners that check out code and run your steps.Ephemeral storageEphemeral storage is disk attached to a runner for the duration of a job and wiped when the job ends.Runner poolA runner pool is a set of runner instances kept ready so queued jobs can start without waiting for a machine to boot.