diff --git a/playbooks/roles/gitea/templates/app.ini.j2 b/playbooks/roles/gitea/templates/app.ini.j2
index 8010afdf39..8e6d660c63 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/gitea/templates/app.ini.j2
+++ b/playbooks/roles/gitea/templates/app.ini.j2
@@ -122,3 +122,15 @@ ENABLED = false
 [lfs]
 STORAGE_TYPE = local
 PATH = /data/git/lfs
+
+; This is an undocumented gitea cron job that will delete all
+; repo archives once a week Sunday at midnight. Repo archives are
+; tarballs/zips/etc of repository state generate for things like
+; tags. This helps ensure we don't run out of disk.
+[cron.delete_repo_archives]
+ENABLED = true
+RUN_AT_START = false
+NOTICE_ON_SUCCESS = false
+; Note we run this several hours after 0000 (midnight) to avoid conflict
+; with default cron jobs run by gitea at that time.
+SCHEDULE = 0 0 3 * * 0