Chapter 9. Namespace auto-pruning architecture For the namespace auto-pruning feature, two distinct database tables within a database schema were created: one for namespaceautoprunepolicy and another for autoprunetaskstatus . An auto-prune worker carries out the configured policies. Namespace auto prune policy database table The namespaceautoprunepolicy database table holds the policy configuration for a single namespace. There is only one entry per namespace, but there is support for multiple rows per namespace_id . The policy field holds the policy details, such as {method: "creation_date", olderThan: "2w"} or {method: "number_of_tags", numTags: 100} . Table 9.1. namespaceautoprunepolicy database table Field Type Attributes Description uuid character varying (225) Unique, indexed Unique identifier for this policy namespace_id Integer Foreign Key Namespace that the policy falls under policy text JSON Policy configuration Auto-prune task status database table The autoprunetaskstatus table registers tasks to be executed by the auto-prune worker. Tasks are executed within the context of a single namespace. Only one task per namespace exists. Table 9.2. autoprunetaskstatus database table Field Type Attributes Description namespace_id Integer Foreign Key Namespace that this task belongs to last_ran_ms Big Integer (bigint) Nullable, indexed Last time that the worker executed the policies for this namespace status text Nullable Details from the last execution task 9.1. Auto-prune worker The following sections detail information about the auto-prune worker. 9.1.1. Auto-prune-task-creation When a new policy is created in the namespaceautoprunepolicy database table, a row is also created in the autoprunetask table. This is done in the same transaction. The auto-prune worker uses the entry in the autoprunetask table to identify which namespace it should execute policies for. 9.1.2. Auto-prune worker execution The auto-pruning worker is an asynchronous job that executes configured policies. Its workflow is based on values in the autoprunetask table. When a task begins, the following occurs: The auto-prune worker starts on a set interval, which defaults at 30 seconds. The auto-prune worker selects a row from autoprunetask with the least, or null, last_ran_ms and FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED . A null last_ran_ms indicates that the task was never ran. A task that hasn't been ran in he longest amount of time, or has never been run at all, is prioritized. The auto-prune worker obtains the policy configuration from the namespaceautoprunepolicy table. If no policy configuration exists, the entry from autoprunetask is deleted for this namespace and the procedure stops immediately. The auto-prune worker begins a paginated loop of all repositories under the organization. The auto-prune worker determines much pruning method to use based on policy.method . The auto-prune worker executes the pruning method with the policy configuration retrieved earlier. For pruning by the number of tags: the auto-pruner worker gets the number of currently active tags sorted by creation date, and deletes the older tags to the configured number. For pruning by date: the auto-pruner worker gets the active tags older than the specified time span and any tags returned are deleted. The auto-prune worker adds audit logs of the tags deleted. The last_ran_ms gets updated after a row from autoprunetask is selected. The auto-prune worker ends.

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