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 del…

Use multiple repositories, e.g. in Maven land you would have a snapshots repo and a releases repo. Use a common naming scheme so you can use regex If you’re a Pro user you could use tagging

Cleanup policy (docker) for all non-version images

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matej.zerovnik (Matej Zerovnik) January 5, 2021, 3:13pm 3

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.

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Cleanup policy (docker) for all non-version images

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