[Feature]: Automatic deletion of stale labinstances
giorio94 opened this issue · 1 comments
giorio94 commented
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently, there is no automatic process to delete old labinstances. If students spawn new VMs for their laboratories and forget to delete them, these are never terminated, and the allocated resources are not released (unless performed manually by an administrator).
Describe the solution you'd like
It would be nice to have a periodic task which takes care of this periodic clean-up.
In particular, it should:
- Be executed periodically, by means of a
CronJob
(e.g. every 15 minutes). - Scan all
labtemplates
, and retrieve for each one the correct deletion threshold. - Scan all
labinstances
, and delete the ones older than the corresponding threshold obtained from thelabtemplate
. - Be assigned with the correct range of permissions to complete the operation (i.e. not
cluster-admin
)
Additional context
- Different
labtemplates
may be characterized by different thresholds (or even no threshold), to account for more ephemeral and more persistent environments. Hence, the proposal for configuration at thelabtemplate
level. - This feature requires to enrich the
labtemplate
definition with the new field.