Docker-Machine with windows VM on AWS

Docker machine just simply doesn’t support provisioning Windows machines. And since it’s been officially deprecated for a number of years, I doubt that it will ever happen. I’m not sure that the GitLab fork maintainers would even accept the feature if someone had time to implement it, since they seem to be focused on supporting only critical bugs in the current codebase.

As an alternative, I’ve been looking into autoscaling GitLab CI runners on Windows using AWS Fargate: Autoscaling GitLab CI on AWS Fargate | GitLab