diff --git a/modules/servers/drone-exec-runner.nix b/modules/servers/drone-exec-runner.nix
index 373b993..3f34b9c 100644
--- a/modules/servers/drone-exec-runner.nix
+++ b/modules/servers/drone-exec-runner.nix
@@ -6,6 +6,16 @@ let
   runnerOpts = {
     options = {
       enable = mkEnableOption "Enable an Drone CI/CD Exec Runner";
+      restartIfChanged = mkOption {
+        type = bool;
+        default = true;
+        description = ''Restart the runner if configuration changes.
+          Consider the scenario where the runner runs on the same machine where it gets deployed and
+          this runner is redeploying itself.
+          If restart if changed is true, the runner gets killed during the process, this is very bad.
+          To enable these scenarios, restart manually the runners once deployment is done.
+        '';
+      };
       package = mkOption {
         type = package;
         default = pkgs.drone-runner-exec;
@@ -54,6 +64,8 @@ in
       systemd.services = mapAttrs' (runnerName: cfg: nameValuePair ("drone-exec-runner-${runnerName}") ({
         wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
 
+        inherit restartIfChanged;
+
         confinement.enable = true;
         confinement.packages = cfg.allowedPackages;
         path = cfg.allowedPackages;