Worker Node - CI/CD Glossary Definition
A worker node is a machine (VM or physical) in a Kubernetes cluster that runs application pods. Each node runs a kubelet, a container runtime, and kube-proxy, and reports its status to the control plane.
Runners on nodes
Self-hosted CI runners are often deployed as pods on worker nodes (for example via Actions Runner Controller), so runner capacity scales with node capacity.
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