🧹 GHCR Cleanup workflow (TangSengDaoDao/TangSengDaoDaoServer)

The 🧹 GHCR Cleanup workflow from TangSengDaoDao/TangSengDaoDaoServer, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: TangSengDaoDao/TangSengDaoDaoServer.github/workflows/ghcr-cleanup.ymlLicense Apache-2.0View source

What it does

This is the 🧹 GHCR Cleanup workflow from the TangSengDaoDao/TangSengDaoDaoServer repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its Apache-2.0 license.

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The workflow

workflow (.yml)

name: 🧹 GHCR Cleanup

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 3 * * *'

permissions:
  contents: read
  packages: write

jobs:
  cleanup:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: rlespinasse/github-slug-action@v5

      - name: 🔍 Cleanup GHCR
        uses: dataaxiom/ghcr-cleanup-action@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          packages: ${{ env.GITHUB_REPOSITORY_NAME_PART_SLUG }}
          delete-untagged: true
          older-than: 30 days
          delete-ghost-images: true
          delete-partial-images: true
          delete-orphaned-images: true
          validate: true
          log-level: info
          dry-run: false

The same workflow, on Latchkey

Removes redundant runs and caps runaway jobs. Added and changed lines are highlighted.

name: 🧹 GHCR Cleanup
 
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 3 * * *'
 
permissions:
  contents: read
  packages: write
 
jobs:
  cleanup:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - uses: rlespinasse/github-slug-action@v5
 
      - name: 🔍 Cleanup GHCR
        uses: dataaxiom/ghcr-cleanup-action@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          packages: ${{ env.GITHUB_REPOSITORY_NAME_PART_SLUG }}
          delete-untagged: true
          older-than: 30 days
          delete-ghost-images: true
          delete-partial-images: true
          delete-orphaned-images: true
          validate: true
          log-level: info
          dry-run: false

What changed

Run on Latchkey managed runners with one line (runs-on), which apply the fixes below automatically and self-heal transient failures. This example uses latchkey-small; pick the runner size that fits the job.
Add a job timeout so a hung step cannot burn hours of runner time.

2 third-party actions are referenced by a movable tag. Pin them to the commit SHA (Latchkey resolves and applies this automatically) so a repointed tag cannot change what runs.

This workflow runs 1 job per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.