{"id":59818,"date":"2020-09-22T12:32:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T20:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=59818"},"modified":"2020-10-05T10:15:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T18:15:48","slug":"optimizing-package-storage-and-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/optimizing-package-storage-and-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimizing package storage (and costs!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

With tiered-storage<\/a> Artifacts billing, paying attention to your artifacts usage obviously… pays off (lame joke)<\/em>. Here are some tips and tricks around artifacts storage, to optimize and ultimately reduce your monthly costs.<\/p>\n

With the upcoming billing experience changes<\/a>, you will only be charged for packages. Pairing that with our upcoming storage breakdown<\/a> feature, this blog post will focus on optimizing and reducing your packages specifically.<\/p>\n

Leveraging automatic retention policies<\/h2>\n

We strongly recommend using feed-level retention policies<\/a> to automatically retain and delete packages.<\/p>\n

Our retention system will optimize package deletion for the best performance possible. So your feed will continue to operate at full speed, even while processing thousands of delete operations. \u2705 If there’s one takeaway from this post, it’s to make sure you’ve enabled this on all your feeds!<\/p>\n

Sending packages to the bin<\/h2>\n

Don’t need a particular feed anymore? Delete it by going to Feed Settings. Or try taking a look at package stats… if it’s not relevant any further, delete the package version!<\/a><\/p>\n

Deleting from recycling bin \ud83d\udeae<\/h2>\n

When you delete either a feed or a package (with the above instructions), it will be moved into your recycling bin. At that point they’ll be marked for hard deletion after 30 days. This gives you flexibility in case you realize that certain package versions or feeds have active dependencies and can’t be deleted! However, these packages remain part of your billable costs. If you don’t want to wait the full 30 days, you can navigate to the recycling bin, and delete them individually.<\/p>\n

We’re working on additional helpful tutorials on hard deletion of packages, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n

Programatic deletions<\/h2>\n