Hello, We'd like to set up a scheduled cleanup of our Artifact Registry but we don't want that to affect release images. The idea that would work best with our tool and also sounds like a general good practice would be to tag release images with a release tag. Unfortunately, I can't find a non-hacky way to do that. I tried to fetch info about images garden builds in a given release job - seems like "v-*" tag would be the most reliable - and then use that to locate image in registry to add the release tag using gcloud but none of the solutions is satisfactory. Here's what I tried: - Add

--output=json

flag and grep "v-.\*" on the output - the problem with this solution is that we prefer to see regular logs in pipeline for debugging and monitoring progress and in this way we'd only see json. - Fetch info from one of the logs in

.garden/logs

- the problem here is that grepping gets even more complex and it's relying on the log structure and wording to stay the same which doesn't seem reliable and would be difficult to track Is there any other method you could recommend?

Hey @best-flower-46100 thanks a lot for asking; an easy way to identify which images doesn't have the tags would be:

gcloud artifacts docker images list $YOUR_REPO_PATH --include-tags --filter='NOT tags~"^v-"'

This command returns the images that don't include the tag v-*. Then to delete them you can use subshells to do something like: *Note: * Please test this in a different repository first and see if it solves the problem you have, running

docker images delete

is a really destructive command, please try to play around with the filters before executing the following command

gcloud artifacts docker images delete $(gcloud artifacts docker images list $YOUR_REPO_PATH --include-tags --filter='NOT tags~"^v-"')

Hey, I think I didn't explain myself well, sorry 😄 the v-\* tags are assigned by garden by default. The release rags would probably be in r-\* format. I'd only use v- tags to collect the images built in a given release and then add r- tags to them

No worries! So basically you want to just re-tag all of the images that starts with v-* to the format you like that is r-*?

Yes, exactly. Leaving v- is fine, the -r tag can be additional. And just to make sure we're on the same page - that would only apply to the images built in the release pipeline - not ones we build locally, neither the ones we build in other pipelines.

Hey @best-flower-46100 sorry for taking a long time to give you a solution, I already scalated this question to our Garden OSS developers to give you a better answer! Thanks a lot for your patience🌸