Add ability to disable "Automatic pipeline cleanup" instance wide.

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Proposal

One of our customers has a requirement to be able to disable Automatic pipeline cleanup for all of the users (instance wide) for compliance reasons. Currently if a user is an owner of the project they can go to:

• On the left sidebar, select Search or go to and find your project.
• Select Settings > CI/CD.
• Expand General pipelines.
• In the Automatic pipeline cleanup field, enter the number of seconds, or a human-readable value like 2 weeks. Must be one day or more, and less than one year. Leave empty to never delete pipelines automatically. Empty by default.
• Select Save changes.

And enable Automatic pipeline cleanup

https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/pipelines/settings/#automatic-pipeline-cleanup

Workround

Current workaround might be for now is to disable the ci_schedule_old_pipelines_removal_cron_worker under the admin > monitoring > background jobs > cron.