Support running inside a Kubernetes CronJob

[Sytten]

I think it would be valuable to create another entrypoint to directly run the cleaner with the specified parameters so it is possible to run inside GKE directly.

[sethvargo]

Do you have an example?

[Sytten]

I mean, basically it would be a docker image that launches the cleaner with something like: ./gcp-cleaner --repo gcr.io/repo/test --allow-tagged

[sethvargo]

I guess I'm confused? Is there a reason the existing image at gcr.io/gcr-cleaner/gcr-cleaner doesn't work for this use case?

[Sytten]

The current image is running a web server and waits for a request right? Inside a CronJob you would directly execute the cleaning. Otherwise you need to keep a pod alive and do CronJob to ping it.

[sethvargo]

Ah I see. So you basically want two different binaries:

• gcrcleaner-server - gets requests and runs the cleaner
• gcrcleaner-runner - CLI that is invoked with flags and exists when done

Is that correct?

[Sytten]

Exactly! It would be nice to have a docker image for each too. And the second (gcrcleaner-runner) could allow an override of CMD parameters so the k8s deployment can specify the flags.

[sethvargo]

I think I'll likely update the existing binary to support to commands server and run with appropriate flags.

[stale[bot]]

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?

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