Restoring open source registry garbage collection page
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description: High level discussion of garbage collection
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keywords: registry, garbage, images, tags, repository, distribution
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title: Garbage collection
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As of v2.4.0 a garbage collector command is included within the registry binary.
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This document describes what this command does and how and why it should be used.
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## About garbage collection
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In the context of the Docker registry, garbage collection is the process of
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removing blobs from the filesystem when they are no longer referenced by a
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manifest. Blobs can include both layers and manifests.
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Registry data can occupy considerable amounts of disk space. In addition,
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garbage collection can be a security consideration, when it is desirable to ensure
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that certain layers no longer exist on the filesystem.
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## Garbage collection in practice
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Filesystem layers are stored by their content address in the Registry. This
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has many advantages, one of which is that data is stored once and referred to by manifests.
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See [here](compatibility.md#content-addressable-storage-cas) for more details.
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Layers are therefore shared amongst manifests; each manifest maintains a reference
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to the layer. As long as a layer is referenced by one manifest, it cannot be garbage
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collected.
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Manifests and layers can be `deleted` with the registry API (refer to the API
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documentation [here](spec/api.md#deleting-a-layer) and
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[here](spec/api.md#deleting-an-image) for details). This API removes references
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to the target and makes them eligible for garbage collection. It also makes them
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unable to be read via the API.
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If a layer is deleted, it is removed from the filesystem when garbage collection
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is run. If a manifest is deleted the layers to which it refers are removed from
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the filesystem if no other manifests refers to them.
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### Example
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In this example manifest A references two layers: `a` and `b`. Manifest `B` references
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layers `a` and `c`. In this state, nothing is eligible for garbage collection:
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```
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A -----> a <----- B
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\--> b |
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c <--/
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```
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Manifest B is deleted via the API:
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```
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A -----> a B
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\--> b
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c
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```
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In this state layer `c` no longer has a reference and is eligible for garbage
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collection. Layer `a` had one reference removed but not garbage
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collected as it is still referenced by manifest `A`. The blob representing
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manifest `B` is eligible for garbage collection.
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After garbage collection has been run, manifest `A` and its blobs remain.
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```
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A -----> a
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\--> b
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```
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### More details about garbage collection
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Garbage collection runs in two phases. First, in the 'mark' phase, the process
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scans all the manifests in the registry. From these manifests, it constructs a
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set of content address digests. This set is the 'mark set' and denotes the set
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of blobs to *not* delete. Secondly, in the 'sweep' phase, the process scans all
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the blobs and if a blob's content address digest is not in the mark set, the
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process deletes it.
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> **Note**: You should ensure that the registry is in read-only mode or not running at
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> all. If you were to upload an image while garbage collection is running, there is the
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> risk that the image's layers are mistakenly deleted leading to a corrupted image.
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This type of garbage collection is known as stop-the-world garbage collection.
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## Run garbage collection
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Garbage collection can be run as follows
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`bin/registry garbage-collect [--dry-run] /path/to/config.yml`
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The garbage-collect command accepts a `--dry-run` parameter, which prints the progress
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of the mark and sweep phases without removing any data. Running with a log level of `info`
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gives a clear indication of items eligible for deletion.
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The config.yml file should be in the following format:
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```
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version: 0.1
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storage:
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filesystem:
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rootdirectory: /registry/data
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```
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_Sample output from a dry run garbage collection with registry log level set to `info`_
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```
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hello-world
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hello-world: marking manifest sha256:fea8895f450959fa676bcc1df0611ea93823a735a01205fd8622846041d0c7cf
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hello-world: marking blob sha256:03f4658f8b782e12230c1783426bd3bacce651ce582a4ffb6fbbfa2079428ecb
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hello-world: marking blob sha256:a3ed95caeb02ffe68cdd9fd84406680ae93d633cb16422d00e8a7c22955b46d4
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hello-world: marking configuration sha256:690ed74de00f99a7d00a98a5ad855ac4febd66412be132438f9b8dbd300a937d
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ubuntu
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4 blobs marked, 5 blobs eligible for deletion
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blob eligible for deletion: sha256:28e09fddaacbfc8a13f82871d9d66141a6ed9ca526cb9ed295ef545ab4559b81
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blob eligible for deletion: sha256:7e15ce58ccb2181a8fced7709e9893206f0937cc9543bc0c8178ea1cf4d7e7b5
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blob eligible for deletion: sha256:87192bdbe00f8f2a62527f36bb4c7c7f4eaf9307e4b87e8334fb6abec1765bcb
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blob eligible for deletion: sha256:b549a9959a664038fc35c155a95742cf12297672ca0ae35735ec027d55bf4e97
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blob eligible for deletion: sha256:f251d679a7c61455f06d793e43c06786d7766c88b8c24edf242b2c08e3c3f599
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```
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