Announcing an exciting update to the GitLab.com Container Registry

What this post added

This post announces the upcoming rollout of a new version of the Container Registry on GitLab.com. The key technical change is the introduction of a new metadata database in Postgres to store image/tag metadata, moving away from storing it in the storage backend. This enables features like storage usage visibility, improved API and UI performance for list operations, and enhancements to the UI including build and commit metadata for tags built via CI and search by tag name. The rollout will be phased, starting with newly-created repositories.