Artifactory Cleanup

This topic provides instructions with Cleanup in Artifactory. It includes granting permission to a project admin, configure and run cleanups, and some monitoring operations.

Cleanup Workflow on Artifactory Project

Create Cleanup Policy for Package

• Navigate to your Project
• From the Administration tab of your project, select ArtifactoryRepositories"
• Select Retention Policies
• Select Create Policy and then Cleanup Policies
• By default Package should be selected, Fill the Policy Name , and Choose a Package Type
• Define Repository Scope, select the repositories you want to include
  • Include Repository Patterns to specify patterns or explicit repository names to include
  • Exclude Repository Patterns to specify patterns or explicit repository names to exclude
  • Check Include All Repositories to apply the policy to all repositories within the project
• Define Package Scope, select the packages you want to include
  • Include Packages Patterns to specify patterns or explicit packages names to include
  • Exclude Packages Patterns to specify patterns or explicit Packages names to exclude
  • Check Include All Packages to apply the policy to all packages within the project
• Define your Time-based policy conditions:
  • Packages Older Than : Enable checkbox, and apply the number of days/weeks/months/years.
  • Packages Not Downloaded Since : Enable checkbox, and apply the number of days/weeks/months/years.
  • for the not downloaded packages.
• Or Define a Version Based policy condition:
  • Select the number of the latest versions to keep. The policy will delete all versions that exceed this number, with the latest version excluded.
• Or Define a Property-based policy condition:
  • Enable checkbox, and specify one property key and value to include packages that match.
  • Check Exclude based on property to exclude packages that match the property key and value.
• Define Cron Settings to schedule the cleanup policy execution.

• Click Save to create the policy.

Perform Dry Run

• Navigate to your Project
• From the Administration tab of your project, select Artifactory > Repositories
• Select Retention Policies
• Found a Policy and at the right end of the line, Select … > Perform Dry Run
• After the completion, you should be able to see a Last Run Status wih a green check.

Preview Last Run Report

• Navigate to your Project
• From the Administration tab of your project, select Artifactory > Repositories
• Select Retention Policies
• Change the tab to Runs
• Select ⬇️ button at Reports column to download the report

Enable and Run

• Navigate to your Project
• From the Administration tab of your project, select Artifactory > Repositories
• Select Retention Policies
• Found a Policy and at the right end of the line, Switch to Active