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Jayadeep KM
Jayadeep KM

Reputation: 171

Jenkins: remove old builds automatically

Is there any plugin or script to remove old build data from Jenkins? There are docker images associated with the builds, so they are taking lots of space. I don't want to keep the build data for more than 30 days.

Seen this plugin : Jenkins: remove old builds But it seems buggy and many people faced problems with it

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3155

Answers (2)

Ioannis K. Moutsatsos
Ioannis K. Moutsatsos

Reputation: 432

I have used several of the of Groovy Jenkins scriptlets described here: https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins-scripts/tree/master/scriptler

Search for 'bulk' and you'll find several flavors. My favorite is https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins-scripts/blob/master/scriptler/bulkDeleteBuilds.groovy which allows you to delete job builds in a specified range.

You can run scriptlets automatically as part of a build, or for more control manually from the Scriptlet console or even from a chron Jenkins job.

Upvotes: 0

Pankaj Saini
Pankaj Saini

Reputation: 1648

I would suggest sticking with the plugin as you already figured out. It works well for me to get rid of old builds and associated artifacts (archive step).

Have a look at the various parameters you can set with it- https://jenkinsci.github.io/job-dsl-plugin/#path/pipelineJob-logRotator

In your case - setting "daysToKeep" to 30 should do

Be aware It will not remove the docker images; for that, you need to implement separate strategy; say 'docker system prune" or "docker image prune"

check this - https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/image_prune/

Upvotes: 1

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