Artifactory delete all artifacts older than 6 months - artifactory

Question

How would you delete all artifacts that match a pattern (e.g older than 6 months old) from artifactory?
Using either curl, or the go library

Answer 1

The jfrog cli takes a 'spec file' to search for artifacts. See here for information on jfrog spec files
The jfrog cli documentation is available here:
Create an aql search query to find just the artifacts you want:
If your aql search syntax were like:
/tmp/foo.query
items.find(
{
"repo":"foobar",
"modified" : { "$lt" : "2016-10-18T21:26:52.000Z" }
}
)
And you could find the artifacts like so:
curl -X POST -u admin:<api_key> https://artifactory.example.com/artifactory/api/search/aql -T foo.query
Then the spec file would be
/tmp/foo.spec
{
"files": [
{
"aql": {
"items.find": {
"repo": "foobar",
"$or": [
{
"$and": [
{
"modified": { "$lt": "2016-10-18T21:26:52.000Z"}
}
]
}
]
}
}
}
]
}
And you would use the golang library like so:
jfrog rt del --spec /tmp/foo.spec --dry-run
Instead of modified, you can also do a relative date
"modified": { "$before":"6mo" }
If you get error 405 Method not allowed, verify you have an api or password correct, and try using PUT instead of POST

Answer 2

Install jforg cli
configure jfrog cli to make API calls
jfrog rt c Artifactory --url=https://<>url/artifactory --apikey=<add api key> #can generate api key from user profile
Create a spec file called artifactory.spec You can change the find query as required. Below query will
display artifacts from
registry - docker-staging
path - *
download status = null # Not downloaded
created before 6 month
{
"files": [
{
"aql": {
"items.find": {
"repo": {"$eq":"docker-staging"},
"path": {"$match":"*"},
"name": {"$match":"*"},
"stat.downloads":{"$eq":null},
"$or": [
{
"$and": [
{
"created": { "$before":"6mo" }
}
]
}
]
}
}
}
]
You can search for the packages avalable to delete by
jfrog rt s --spec artifactory.spec
Run the delete command
jfrog rt del --spec artifactory.spec

Answer 3

We've built a tool for Artifactory artifacts management (cleanup) https://github.com/devopshq/artifactory-cleanup
it'd look like
# artifactory-cleanup.yaml
artifactory-cleanup:
server: https://repo.example.com/artifactory
# $VAR is auto populated from environment variables
user: $ARTIFACTORY_USERNAME
password: $ARTIFACTORY_PASSWORD
policies:
- name: Remove all files from repo-name-here older then 7 days
rules:
- rule: Repo
name: "reponame"
- rule: DeleteOlderThan
days: 7
then you should run it to see what it'll remove and when you are ready - add --destroy flag to it!
artifactory-cleanup