diff --git a/handlers/main.yml b/handlers/main.yml
index 731308f48a46fffef8df772ac11b722a5b7b1613..84f1e43ec964baf9ca8f49caa70123684e669405 100644
--- a/handlers/main.yml
+++ b/handlers/main.yml
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 ---
-# handlers file for gitlab-runner
+- name: restart_gitlab_runner
+  service: name=gitlab-runner state=restarted
diff --git a/tasks/global-setup.yml b/tasks/global-setup.yml
index b573ab7bf0b04fe01acc7e050be0a172a5ce98c2..403e175eeec09fe2cd02710d5995ff30f9d668c2 100644
--- a/tasks/global-setup.yml
+++ b/tasks/global-setup.yml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
     line: '\1concurrent = {{ gitlab_runner_concurrent }}'
     state: present
     backrefs: yes
+  notify: restart_gitlab_runner
 
 - name: Set docker privileged option
   lineinfile:
@@ -14,4 +15,5 @@
     line: '\1privileged = {{ gitlab_runner_docker_privileged | lower}}'
     state: present
     backrefs: yes
+  notify: restart_gitlab_runner