[arinlen]

> You can define container cleanup policies within the registry, matching on age, tags, etc. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/packages/container_registry/...

As a long time GitLab user, and a user who championed the adoption of GitLab by a previous employer, this is highly disappointing. This basically eliminates GitLab as a viable option to some SMEs and specially for personal projects that relied on GitLab to build Docker images and deploy them as part of the CICD pipeline.

I just checked a personal project I have hosted in GitLab that does nothing more than pulling a Docker image, do a minor tweak and deliver the image to the container registry, and the Docker image build step alone adds ~100MB to the usage quotas each time the pipeline is triggered.

I'm sorry to say, but if this plan stays as is, GitLab ceases to be an option.