Through out my career, I have investigated and solved numerous bizarre issues. This one is right up there as being one of the weirdest as well as being one of the most hilarious ones when the truth came out in the end. At $DAYJOB, we are moving piece by piece our services to Kubernetes. One of such service slated for migration is the Gitlab runners. If you’re not familiar with Gitlab, it’s like Github you can self-host and it boasts a very powerful and flexible CI/CD pipeline.