diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
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+++ b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
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+{
+    "name": "gitlab-runner",
+    "image": "mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/base:ubuntu-22.04",
+    "features": {
+        "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/terraform:1.3.5": {
+            "version": "1.6.1",
+            "terragrunt": "0.52.1"
+        },
+        "ghcr.io/devcontainers-contrib/features/pre-commit:2.0.9": {
+            "version": "3.4.0"
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
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+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
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+---
+default_language_version:
+  python: python3
+
+repos:
+  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
+    rev: v4.5.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: end-of-file-fixer
+      - id: trailing-whitespace
+        args:
+          - --markdown-linebreak-ext=md
+      - id: check-merge-conflict
+      - id: no-commit-to-branch
+        args:
+          - "--branch"
+          - "main"
+      - id: check-symlinks
+      - id: check-added-large-files
+      - id: check-json
+      - id: check-yaml
+  - repo: https://github.com/markdownlint/markdownlint
+    rev: v0.13.0
+    hooks:
+      - id: markdownlint
+  - repo: https://github.com/maxbrunet/pre-commit-renovate
+    rev: 37.31.1
+    hooks:
+      - id: renovate-config-validator
diff --git a/backend.tf b/backend.tf
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+++ b/backend.tf
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+terraform {
+  backend "s3" {
+  }
+}
diff --git a/main.tf b/main.tf
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/main.tf
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+module "ec2-instance" {
+  source  = "terraform-aws-modules/ec2-instance/aws"
+  version = "5.5.0"
+
+  name = "runner-instance"
+
+  instance_type          = var.instance_type
+  key_name               = var.key_name
+  monitoring             = true
+  vpc_security_group_ids = ["sg-12345678"]
+  subnet_id              = "subnet-eddcdzz4"
+
+  tags = {
+    Project     = var.project
+    User        = var.user
+    Environment = var.environment
+  }
+}
diff --git a/providers.tf b/providers.tf
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+++ b/providers.tf
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+provider "gitlab" {
+  token    = var.token
+  base_url = var.base_url
+  insecure = var.insecure
+}
+
+provider "aws" {
+  region  = var.aws_region
+  profile = var.aws_profile
+}
diff --git a/renovate.json b/renovate.json
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index 0000000..37df34d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/renovate.json
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+{
+  "$schema": "https://docs.renovatebot.com/renovate-schema.json",
+  "extends": [
+    "github>platform-engineering-org/.github"
+  ],
+  "customManagers": [
+    {
+      "customType": "regex",
+      "matchStringsStrategy": "combination",
+      "fileMatch": [
+        "variables.tf"
+      ],
+      "matchStrings": [
+        "variable\\s*\"runner_version\"",
+        "description",
+        "type",
+        "default\\s*=\\s*\"(?<currentValue>.*)\""
+      ],
+      "depNameTemplate": "gitlab-org/gitlab-runner",
+      "datasourceTemplate": "gitlab-releases",
+      "extractVersionTemplate": "^v?(?<version>.*)$"
+    },
+    {
+      "customType": "regex",
+      "fileMatch": [".devcontainer/devcontainer.json"],
+      "matchStrings": [
+        "\"image\": \"(?<depName>mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/base):(?<currentValue>.*)\""
+      ],
+      "datasourceTemplate": "docker"
+    },
+    {
+      "customType": "regex",
+      "fileMatch": [".devcontainer/devcontainer.json"],
+      "matchStrings": [
+        "\"(?<depName>ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/terraform):(?<currentValue>.*)\""
+      ],
+      "datasourceTemplate": "docker"
+    },
+    {
+      "customType": "regex",
+      "matchStringsStrategy": "combination",
+      "fileMatch": [".devcontainer/devcontainer.json"],
+      "matchStrings": [
+        "\"ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/terraform\"",
+        "\"version\":\\s*\"(?<currentValue>.*)\""
+      ],
+      "depNameTemplate": "hashicorp/terraform",
+      "datasourceTemplate": "github-releases"
+    },
+    {
+      "customType": "regex",
+      "fileMatch": [".devcontainer/devcontainer.json"],
+      "matchStrings": [
+        "\"(?<depName>terragrunt)\":\\s*\"(?<currentValue>.*)\""
+      ],
+      "depNameTemplate": "gruntwork-io/terragrunt",
+      "datasourceTemplate": "github-releases",
+      "extractVersionTemplate": "^v?(?<version>.*)$"
+    },
+    {
+      "customType": "regex",
+      "fileMatch": [".devcontainer/devcontainer.json"],
+      "matchStrings": [
+        "\"(?<depName>ghcr.io/devcontainers-contrib/features/pre-commit):(?<currentValue>.*)\""
+      ],
+      "datasourceTemplate": "docker"
+    },
+    {
+      "customType": "regex",
+      "matchStringsStrategy": "combination",
+      "fileMatch": [".devcontainer/devcontainer.json"],
+      "matchStrings": [
+        "\"ghcr.io/devcontainers-contrib/features/pre-commit\"",
+        "\"version\":\\s*\"(?<currentValue>.*)\""
+      ],
+      "depNameTemplate": "pre-commit/pre-commit",
+      "datasourceTemplate": "github-releases"
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/variables.tf b/variables.tf
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+++ b/variables.tf
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+variable "aws_region" {
+  description = "AWS region."
+  type        = string
+}
+
+variable "aws_profile" {
+  description = "AWS profile."
+  type        = string
+  default     = "default"
+}
+
+variable "token" {
+  type        = string
+  description = "Gitlab token"
+  sensitive   = true
+}
+
+variable "insecure" {
+  type        = string
+  description = "Do not verify certifcate if true"
+  default     = true
+}
+
+variable "base_url" {
+  type        = string
+  description = "gitlab api end point"
+  default     = "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/"
+}
+
+variable "environment" {
+  description = "A name that identifies the environment, will used as prefix and for tagging."
+  type        = string
+  default     = "dev"
+}
+
+variable "runner_name" {
+  description = "Name of the runner, will be used in the runner config.toml"
+  type        = string
+  default     = "pe-runner"
+}
+
+variable "gitlab_url" {
+  description = "URL of the gitlab instance to connect to."
+  type        = string
+  default     = "https://gitlab.com"
+}
+
+variable "registration_token_runner" {
+  description = "Registration token for the runner."
+  type        = string
+  sensitive   = true
+}
+
+variable "timezone" {
+  description = "Name of the timezone that the runner will be used in."
+  type        = string
+  default     = "Europe/Amsterdam"
+}
+
+variable "project" {
+  description = "Project Name"
+  type        = string
+  default     = "Platform Engineering"
+}
+
+variable "user" {
+  description = "User name"
+  type        = string
+}
+
+variable "runner_version" {
+  description = "Gitlab runner version"
+  type        = string
+  default     = "16.4.1"
+}
+
+variable "instance_type" {
+  description = "AWS instance type"
+  type        = string
+  default     = "t3.micro"
+}
+
+variable "key_name" {
+  description = "AWS instance type"
+  type        = string
+  default     = "t3.micro"
+}
diff --git a/versions.tf b/versions.tf
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index 0000000..1d0636a
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+++ b/versions.tf
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+terraform {
+  required_providers {
+    aws = {
+      source  = "hashicorp/aws"
+      version = "5.22.0"
+    }
+    gitlab = {
+      source  = "gitlabhq/gitlab"
+      version = "16.4.1"
+    }
+    local = {
+      source  = "hashicorp/local"
+      version = "2.4.0"
+    }
+    null = {
+      source  = "hashicorp/null"
+      version = "3.2.1"
+    }
+    tls = {
+      source  = "hashicorp/tls"
+      version = "4.0.4"
+    }
+    random = {
+      source  = "hashicorp/random"
+      version = "3.5.1"
+    }
+  }
+}