📖 Create (and publish) End-of-Life strategy for Images on AP

[jhpyke]

User Story

As an owner of the platform
I need to be able to retire old images
So that the security and stability of the platform can be maintained

Value / Purpose

Currently, the AP provides a number of different tooling images to users, including R, Python, and VS Code IDEs. However, we currently do not have a strategy for end-of-life-ing images. This will eventually become a liability in terms of the emergence of vulnerabilities etc. As such, we should formulate our approach to handling end-of-lifing of images, and then publish that strategy somewhere it can be viewed by users, so they can anticipate changes to available images.

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Hypothesis

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Proposal

We need to first create an ADR or similar on when/why we end-of-life images, and then based on that publish guidance our users can see.

Additional Information

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Definition of Done

• We have a strategy for under what circumstances we end-of-life a provided image
• We have published planned end-of-life times for existing images in the AP user guidance
• We have a runbook for how we retire an existing image

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