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 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 <ma...@rideamigos.com>: >>> >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Jenkins Users" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to jenkinsci-use...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/1d9e0343-bbce-474f-a4fe-7623a4f39aaf%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/1d9e0343-bbce-474f-a4fe-7623a4f39aaf%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/b6dfc6d2-0d82-4bc3-a356-a710cfc01a6d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
