glab(1)

💅 glab runner-controller create — the glab(1) page, bestie edition ✨

Okay so listen 🫶 this is the manual page for glab runner-controller create, straight out of glab(1). Yes the name is a mouthful, no we're not shortening it, it's iconic. Sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get you a runner controller.

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✨ NAME ✨

glab-runner-controller-create — create a runner controller. 💖

(EXPERIMENTAL) — like, literally labeled experimental, we'll get to that.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

glab runner-controller create [flags]

That's it. That's the whole vibe check. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Bestie, read this part before you go clicking anything: you must have administrator access. No admin, no controller, periodt. 🙈

The cute part tho? The runner controller can be created in a disabled state for testing before you enable it. So you can spawn it, poke at it, and only then flip it on. Main character energy. 👑

But now the serious bit, and I need you to hear me: this feature is an experiment and is not ready for production use. Not me exaggerating — the page says it might be unstable or removed at any time. 😭 So like, do NOT put your whole production setup on this and then come crying to me.

For more info on what "experimental" means here, see: https://docs.gitlab.com/policy/development_stages_support/ — go read it, iykyk. 🧚

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -d, --description="" — the description of the runner controller. Defaults to empty, so if you want it to have a personality you gotta give it one yourself. ✨
• --jq="" — filter the JSON output with a jq expression. Defaults to empty. Perfect for when the raw JSON is giving too much and you just want the good bits. 🔥
• -F, --output="text" — format the output as: text, json. Default is text. 💖
• --state="" — the state of the runner controller: disabled, enabled, dry_run. Defaults to empty. Go off, pick your state. 💅

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👑 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 👑

• -h, --help[=false] — show help for this command. Default is false. Our lord and savior, the help flag. 🫶

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

These are literal, copy them, don't retype them. 💀

# Create a runner controller with default settings
glab runner-controller create

# Create a runner controller with a description
glab runner-controller create --description "My controller"

# Create an enabled runner controller
glab runner-controller create --description "Production" --state enabled

Look at that first one — no flags, just vibes, defaults do everything. Slay. ⭐

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• glab-runner-controller(1) — the parent command, go say hi to it too.

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💖 This little cutie was auto generated by spf13/cobra, version dated Nov 2026, and it lives in the glab(1) manual. Now go create a controller (in a disabled state, for testing, because it's experimental, bestie, we talked about this) 🎀🦋✨