Builder HouseKeeping - cleanup

[jsirex]

Describe the Enhancement:

Ability to configure some cleanup jobs on builder. There are multiple conditions may be:

• purge packages from a channel
• purge if no RDEP
• purge if not in channel
• keep only latest package
• keep only latest release for each package version
• whatever else?

Example: I want to purge all packages in my origin which are not in stable or production channel.

I really don't know how to better implement this. HBQL (habitat builder query language)? External cli?

Describe the Need:

Many of us who uses builder have it on-prem. And usually only one. Also, we have our ci/cd.
CI/CD in turn produces lots of test-and-trash packages. Most of these package will be never used.

Current Alternative

Probably, current alternative is to maintain another on-prem builder dedicated to CI/CD with weekly implode-and-start-from-scratch job. However this doubles maintenance efforts and infrastructure costs.

Aha! Link: https://chef.aha.io/features/APPDL-118

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