Commit 4fd5ab16 authored by Grzegorz Bizon's avatar Grzegorz Bizon

Visualize the three tracks in CI/CD time decay blueprint

parent 57efe183
......@@ -44,18 +44,26 @@ CI/CD data is subject to
[time-decay](https://about.gitlab.com/company/team/structure/working-groups/database-scalability/time-decay.html)
because, usually, pipelines that are a few months old are not frequently
accessed or are even not relevant anymore. Restricting access to processing
pipelines that are longer than a few months might help us to move this data to
a different storage, that is more performant and cost effective.
pipelines that are older than a few months might help us to move this data out
of the primary database, to a different storage, that is more performant and
cost effective.
It is already possible to prevent processing builds [that have been
archived](../../../user/admin_area/settings/continuous_integration.md#archive-jobs).
When a build gets archived it will not be possible to retry it, but we do not
move data from the database.
move data out of the database, it still consumes resources that are scarce in
the primary database.
In order to improve performance and make it easier to scale CI/CD data storage
we might want to follow these three tracks described below.
### Migrate build metadata of archived pipelines
![pipeline data time decay](pipeline_data_time_decay.png)
1. Partition builds queuing tables
2. Archive CI/CD data into partitioned database schema
3. Migrate archived builds metadata out of primary database
### Migrate archived builds metadata out of primary database
Once a build (or a pipeline) gets archived, it is no longer possible to resume
pipeline processing in such pipeline. It means that all the metadata, we store
......@@ -75,7 +83,7 @@ dataset. Technical evaluation will be required to find the best solution here.
Epic: [Migrate build metadata of archived pipelines](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/7216).
### Partition archived CI/CD data
### Archive CI/CD data into partitioned database schema
After we move CI/CD metadata to a different store, the problem of having
billions of rows describing pipelines, build and artifacts, remains. We still
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