On Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 4:50:48 PM UTC-7, Kevin Brotcke wrote:
>
> I also couldn't get the buildDiscarder working, nothing seems to be
> happening. In our case we create a lot of long lasting branches which
> filled up our Jenins server disk space pretty quickly. I wrote a quick
> Groovy script to delete old builds across all branches but I'd prefer a
> more integrated solution:
>
> https://gist.github.com/kevin-brotcke/8f65f07e7314ae811df242abc70b2ef2
>
>
>From scripted pipeline
<https://github.com/MarkEWaite/jenkins-bugs/blob/eeac3d925dbb5723979bd87ecf6643d895e7c49b/Jenkinsfile#L8>,
I use properties([[$class: 'BuildDiscarderProperty', strategy: [$class:
'LogRotator', numToKeepStr: '7']]]) and it works great. I haven't tried it
with declarative pipeline, but would be surprised if it did not work just
as well there.
Mark Waite
>
> On Friday, May 5, 2017 at 1:06:04 PM UTC-7, Mark Stosberg wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 4:08:53 AM UTC-5, Baptiste Mathus wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I don't think there's something per branch, but you probably want to
>>>> either search JIRA and/or file a new feature request about it.
>>>>
>>>> You shouldn't need a special plugin, this is a standard feature. Here's
>>>> the way to do it with Declarative Pipeline:
>>>>
>>>> pipeline {
>>>> options {
>>>> buildDiscarder(logRotator(numToKeepStr: '20'))
>>>> }
>>>> ...
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Or with scripted Pipeline:
>>>> https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/blob/master/Jenkinsfile#L17-L19
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> I'm stil not seeing any signs that the buildDiscarder plugin is working
>> for me. At the top of my Jenkinsfile, I have this:
>>
>> properties([[
>> $class: 'jenkins.model.BuildDiscarderProperty',
>> strategy: [$class: 'LogRotator', numToKeepStr: '50',
>> artifactNumToKeepStr: '50']
>> ]])
>>
>> That's just above my "node {}" block.
>>
>> From reading related source code at:
>>
>> https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/blob/08def67a18eee51de9f3f99bc2a792fee1c160e0/core/src/main/java/hudson/tasks/LogRotator.java
>>
>> I can see that this function should generate some logging, but I can't
>> find the log entries indicating this is running in either the web-based
>> Jenkins log page, or under /var/log/jenkins/*
>>
>> The effective-but-imperfect workaround I've found is to just manually
>> delete only builds:
>>
>> find "/var/lib/jenkins/jobs/My Pipeline/branches/" -mindepth 3
>> -maxdepth 3 -type d -ctime +15 | xargs -d '\n' rm -rf
>>
>> That doesn't have the safety nets of preserving any builds that are
>> last-successful, promoted, etc.
>>
>> Some questions:
>>
>> * Should the logging I see in the source code *always* be happening or
>> there something I need to do activate that logging?
>> * Should properties() call work outside a node block?
>> * Are there any serious drawbacks to just manually deleting old build
>> myself? This built-in log rotation has proven especially time-consuming for
>> what seems like it should be a simple feature to setup.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> 2017-02-28 20:24 GMT+01:00 Mark Stosberg <[email protected]>:
>>>>
>>>>> For cleaning up old builds, the "Discard Old Builds" plugin is
>>>>> recommended:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Discard+Old+Build+plugin
>>>>>
>>>>> However, the instructions for reference a "post build" step which
>>>>> doesn't exist in the Configure interface for Multibranch Pipeline
>>>>> projects.
>>>>>
>>>>> What's the recommended way to clean-up builds from multi-branch
>>>>> pipeline projects? Ideally I'd like different pruning policies for
>>>>> different branches.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark
>>>>>
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