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Enable GraphQL and vue apollo in the cleanup policy for tags form

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Problem to solve

The Cleanup policy for tags gives you a way to programmatically remove any unused image/tags from your GitLab Container Registry. However, the form is not yet leveraging the Graphql API created for this purpose.

Using the GraphQL API will allow us to:

  • Dynamic set of fields selected only if the client needs them.
  • Living API - we could deprecate & remove these fields if we absolutely had to
  • Instrumentation can give us metrics on use to inform deprecation decisions
  • Lazy evaluation built-in from the start

Intended users

User experience goal

  • Improved performance and reliability of the Cleanup policy feature

Proposal

As a follow-up to #196784 (closed), we will enable GraphQL and vue apollo in the cleanup policy for tags form.

As a part of this work we will:

  • remove (or heavily slim down) vuex from app/assets/javascripts/registry/settings/
  • Add vue-apollo to call graphql
  • write down the necessary queries and mutations
  • Adjust the tests

Permissions and Security

  • There are no expected permissions changes

Documentation

  • There are no expected documentation changes

Links / references

Edited by Tim Rizzi