Cleanup policy (docker) for all non-version images

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Hello,

we generate various docker images during development and push them to CI. They are usually short lived and used for a few days max. Final and production images always have the same tags in format - (eg apache:1.2.3).

I’m trying to create a clean policy, that keeps production images, but delete all other like:
apache:master-test
apache:master
apache:branch-name-…
apache:1.2.3-gg94ngi
apache:1.2.3-fixed-issue
…

As regex is pretty basic is Nexus, is there a good and simple way to keep production images and delete all other?

Anyone has any ideas?

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  1. Use multiple repositories, e.g. in Maven land you would have a snapshots repo and a releases repo.
  2. Use a common naming scheme so you can use regex
  3. If you’re a Pro user you could use tagging
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We had some internal debate and using common naming scheme would probably be the fastest way to achieve what we want. A scheme that is compatible with reduced regex in Nexus.