Re: [atomic] deleting all images older than X

[Clayton Coleman <ccoleman redhat com>]

Image pruning should - it tracks in use images and removes any that
are no longer necessary.  You can set arbitrary time limits and there
are several options for controlling how many old tags you want.

> On Jan 11, 2017, at 6:46 PM, Adam Miller <maxamillion fedoraproject org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 5:40 PM, Josh Berkus <jberkus redhat com> wrote:
>>> On 01/11/2017 03:03 PM, Ken Dreyer wrote:
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> Deleting images from docker-distribution is a rough user experience.
>>> The docker-distribution developers have written a long explanation
>>> about why this is hard:
>>> https://github.com/docker/distribution/blob/master/ROADMAP.md#deletes
>>>
>>> Does Atomic Registry have any solution to this, or any ways to make this easier?
>>>
>>> My team and I are looking for a simple way to garbage-collect (delete)
>>> all images in our registry that are older than two weeks.
>>>
>>> - Ken
>>>
>>
>> I don't know of any particular feature for deleting images; Aaron?
>
> I don't currently have an Atomic Registry up and running so I can't
> verify, but I want to offer up something that I found.
>
> According to the atomic-registry docs[0] there's use of the 'oc'
> command which is inherited from OpenShift. If the 'oadm' commands are
> as well, I suspect the 'oadm prune image'[1] command should satisfy
> this requirement.
>
> -AdamM
>
> [0] - http://docs.projectatomic.io/registry/latest/registry_quickstart/developers.html
> [1] - https://docs.openshift.org/latest/admin_guide/pruning_resources.html#pruning-images
>
>>
>>
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>> Josh Berkus
>> Project Atomic
>> Red Hat OSAS
>>
>