Deleting unused images from Google Container Registry, leaving x number left

housekeeping_images.sh

#!/bin/bash

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IFS=$'\n\t'
set -eou pipefail

if [[ "$#" -ne 2 || "${1}" == '-h' || "${1}" == '--help' ]]; then
	cat >&2 <<"EOF"
housekeeping_images.sh cleans up tagged or untagged images pushed for a given repository (an image name without a tag/digest)
and except the given number most recent images

USAGE:
  housekeeping_images.sh REPOSITORY NUMBER_OF_IMAGES_TO_REMAIN

EXAMPLE
  housekeeping_images.sh eu.gcr.io/YOUR_PROJECT/IMAGE_NAME 5

  would clean up everything under the eu.gcr.io/test-project/php repository
  pushed except for the 5 most recent images
EOF
	exit 1
# elif [ ${2} -ge 0 ] 2>/dev/null; then
#     echo "no number of images to remain given" >&2
#     exit 1
fi

main() {
	local C=0
	IMAGE="${1}"
	NUMBER_OF_IMAGES_TO_REMAIN=$((${2} - 1))

	CUTOFF=$(gcloud container images list-tags $IMAGE --limit=unlimited \
		--sort-by=~TIMESTAMP --format=json | TZ=/usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC jq -r '.['$NUMBER_OF_IMAGES_TO_REMAIN'].timestamp.datetime | sub("(?<before>.*):"; .before ) | strptime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%z") | mktime | strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S%z")')

	for digest in $(gcloud container images list-tags $IMAGE --limit=unlimited --sort-by=~TIMESTAMP \
		--filter="timestamp.datetime < '${CUTOFF}'" --format='get(digest)'); do
		(
			set -x
			gcloud container images delete -q --force-delete-tags "${IMAGE}@${digest}"
		)
		let C=C+1
	done
	echo "Deleted ${C} images in ${IMAGE}." >&2
}

main "${1}" ${2}

Hello.. I am having this error when using your script:

jq: error (at <stdin>:46): null (null) cannot be matched, as it is not a string

That‘s probabbly because gcloud cannot find any images in your repo. Try listing your images (replacing or defining $IMAGE first of course)

gcloud container images list-tags $IMAGE --limit=unlimited

Does that list your images in the repo?

Hello.. I am having this error when using your script:

jq: error (at <stdin>:46): null (null) cannot be matched, as it is not a string

Hi friend, the script works good! The "jq" error is only you install the "jq package" and will be ok to script use. The "jq" is a tool for processing JSON inputs.

Run in your system: sudo apt install jq -y

Hope this helps.