Gitlab didn't even have retention policies until sometime in 2020. I have a six year old project that's consuming something like 4TB of space in their container registry.
Yeah tbh we are leaving the age of abundant cheap money where everything is unlimited and unpriced. Having people pay for their usage will get them to actually start cleaning up all their junk build artifacts rather than just eating the loss on storing petabytes of old docker images which have no value.
Not op, but a simple node application can very easily make container images that are well over a gigabyte. Build and store that container images on every push and boom, you can explode in usage.
