This is a small tool to delete tags, or, to be more correct, delete image manifests, from a Docker Registry implementing the API v2.
Please be aware of that this is a soft delete. You've to run the registry garbage collection after this tool has been applied.
Information about the needed garbage collection is described at https://docs.docker.com/registry/garbage-collection/.
- v0.7.1 - Added a
--skip-tls-verifyattribute - v0.7 - This is a release which breaks some stuff (configuration file is now yaml based), adding new options for keeping images (e.g.
--since,--regex) (thanks to @JulianSauer for his PR10) - v0.6 - add
-cfflag which allows to clean up all repos in a registry (thanks @kekru for his PR) - v0.5 - fix for issue #8 which resulted in deleting more layers then intended; performance improvements; added
--metadata-workersattribute - v0.4.1 - added
--assume-yesand deprecated--quietflag - v0.4 - added support for basic auth secured registry servers, introducing
--basicauth-userand--basicauth-pw(thanks to @kekru for his pull request) - v0.3 - fixing deletion if a digest is associated with multiple tags, introducing the
--ignore-ref-tagsflag. - v0.2 - added support for registry server using self signed certificates
- v0.1 - first version with basics
You need Docker and a Docker registry system which implements the Registry API v2. For Docker Registry v2 API specification see https://docs.docker.com/registry/spec/api/.
Be sure to configure your registry server to allow deletion (see https://docs.docker.com/registry/configuration/#/delete).
Download the file cleanreg.py or clone this repository to a local directory or pull the docker image. This is the suggested way to run cleanreg!
docker pull hcguersoy/cleanreg:v0.7.0
The image is hosted here: https://hub.docker.com/r/hcguersoy/cleanreg/
Hint: latest tag is not supported (you know, latest is evil 😈).
To get a immediate help simply run it without any parameters:
$ docker run --rm hcguersoy/cleanreg:v0.7.0
usage: cleanreg.py [-h] [-v] -r REGISTRY [-p] [-y] [-q] [-n REPONAME:TAG]
[-k KEEPIMAGES] [-re] [-d DATE]
[-f REPOSFILE] [-c CACERT] [-i] [-u BASICAUTHUSER]
[-pw BASICAUTHPW] [-w MD_WORKERS]
Removes images on a docker registry (v2).
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --verbose The verbosity level. Increase verbosity by multiple
usage, e.g. -vvv .
-r REGISTRY, --registry REGISTRY
The registry server to connect to, e.g.
http://1.2.3.4:5000
-p, --proxy Use system level proxy settings accessing registry
server if set. By default, the registry server will be
accessed without a proxy.
-y, --yes, --assume-yes
If set no user action will appear and all questions
will be answered with YES
-q, --quiet [deprecated] If set no user action will appear and all
questions will be answered with YES
-n REPONAME, --reponame REPONAME:TAG
The name of the repo which should be cleaned up. Tags
are optional.
-cf, --clean-full-catalog
If set all repos of the registry will be cleaned up,
considering the -k, -re and -d options.
These can be overridden for each repo in the repofile (-f).
-k KEEPIMAGES, --keepimages KEEPIMAGES
Amount of images (not tags!) which should be kept for
the given repo (if -n is set) or for each repo of the
registry (if -cf is set).
-re, --regex
Interpret tagnames as regular expressions for the given
repo (if -n is set) or for each repo of the registry (if
-cf is set).
-s DATE, --since DATE
Keeps images which were created since then for
the given repo (if -n is set) or for each repo of the
registry (if -cf is set).
Format: YYYYMMDD, YYYYMMDDThhmmss, YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss
-f REPOSFILE, --reposfile REPOSFILE
A yaml file containing the list of Repositories with
additional information regarding tags, dates and how many
images to keep.
Format: REPONAME:
tag: TAG
keepimages: KEEPIMAGES
keepsince: DATE
-c CACERT, --cacert CACERT
Path to a valid CA certificate file. This is needed if
self signed TLS is used in the registry server.
-sv, --skip-tls-verify
If set insecure TLS is allowed, so no need for
a valid cert to verify.
-i, --ignore-ref-tags
Ignore a digest if it is referenced multiple times in
the whole registry server. In this case, a list of all
repositories and their images will be retrieved which
can be time and memory consuming. ATTENTION: the
default is False so an image will be deleted even it
is referenced multiple times.
-u BASICAUTHUSER, --basicauth-user BASICAUTHUSER
The username, if the registry is protected with basic
auth
-pw BASICAUTHPW, --basicauth-pw BASICAUTHPW
The password, if the registry is protected with basic
auth
-w MD_WORKERS, --metadata-workers MD_WORKERS
Parallel workers to retrieve image metadata. Default
value is 6.
If you've to use a configuration file (parameter -f) you should mount that file into your container:
docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd)/cleanreg-example.conf:/cleanreg-example.yaml hcguersoy/cleanreg:<version> -r http://192.168.56.2:5000 -f cleanreg-example.yaml -i
As an alternative, you can create your own image, inheriting from cleanreg:
FROM hcguersoy/cleanreg:v0.7.0
ADD myconfig.yaml /config.yaml
Attention: It is strongly recommended that you use the -i flag even it is more time and memory consuming. If not you can delete images / layers which you not wanted to delete because registry itself doesn't check if a digest is referenced by multiple tags!
Cleaning up a single repository called mysql on registry server 192.168.56.2:5000 and keeping 5 of the latest images:
docker run --rm -it hcguersoy/cleanreg:<version> -r http://192.168.56.2:5000 -n mysql -k 5
Be aware that you don't keep here the five last tags but digests/images. As a digest can be associated with multiple tags this can result in deletion of images which you not intended in!
Again: to be secure use the -i flag:
docker run --rm -it hcguersoy/cleanreg:<version> -r http://192.168.56.2:5000 -n mysql -k 5 -i
Same as above but ignore images which are associated with multiple tags.
docker run --rm -it hcguersoy/cleanreg:<version> -r http://192.168.56.2:5000 -n mysql:latest -i
Will only delete the image mysql which is tagged as latest.
docker run --rm -it hcguersoy/cleanreg:<version> -r http://192.168.56.2:5000 -n mysql:.*temp.* -re -d 2018-01-01 -k 5 -i
Removes all images that contain the word "temp" in their tagnames and if they were created before 2018 but at least 5 will be kept in total.
docker run --rm -it hcguersoy/cleanreg:<version> -r http://192.168.56.2:5000 -n myalpine -k 50 -i -w 12
If you have a very large registry and enough bandwidth you can increase the parallel workers to retrieve the image metadata. The default is 6. Be aware that you can generate a DoS on your registry server by increasing to much.
Cleaning up all repositories of the registry:
docker run --rm -it hcguersoy/cleanreg:<version> -r http://192.168.56.2:5000 -cf -k 5 -i
This will clean up all repositories, keeping 5 images per repository.
Cleaning up multiple repositories defined in a configuration file:
docker run --rm -it \
-v $(pwd)/cleanreg-example.conf:/cleanreg-example.yaml \
hcguersoy/cleanreg:<version> \
-r http://192.168.56.2:5000 \
-f /cleanreg-example.yaml \
-re \
-i
The configuration file has the format
<repository name>:
tag: <tag>
keepimages: <number of images to keep>
keepsince: <date>
The values for tag, keepimages and keepsince are optional. If the tag should be parsed as a regular expression use the -re flag as shown above. A simple example for the configuration file:
consul:
tag: OnlyThisTag
keepimages: 20
keepsince: 2000-12-24T12:31:59
elasticsearch:
keepimages: 20
keepsince: 20000101
dummybox:
keepimages: 0
The configuration file can be used together with the clean-full-catalog option:
./cleanreg.py -r http://192.168.56.2:5000 -cf -d 20180101 -f cleanreg-example.conf -i
This will clean the repositories with images to keep as defined in the configuration file and it will additionally clean all other repositories of the registry, keeping images per repository that were created since 2018.
There is a simple script added to create multiple image tags (based on busybox) on your registry server.
If you have installed a semi secure registry server using TLS and self signed certificates you have to provide the path to the CA certificate file:
./cleanreg.py -r https://192.168.56.3:5000 -c /my/certifacates/ca.pem -f cleanreg-example.conf -i
If you run cleanreg in a container you should not forget to mount the certificate file into the container like the configuration file above.
If your registry is protected with basic auth and the username is test and the password is secret, you have to pass these credentials to cleanreg.
./cleanreg.py -r https://192.168.56.3:5000 -u test -pw secret -f cleanreg-example.conf
Example on running the garbage collection:
$ docker run --rm \
-v /docker/registry2:/var/lib/registry:rw \
registry:latest bin/registry \
garbage-collect /etc/docker/registry/config.yml
This maps the local directory /docker/registry2 into the container, and calls the garbage collection. The pointed config file is the default configuration. The registry itself should be stopped before running this.
Feel free to contribute your changes as a PR. Please ensure that the tests run without errors and provide tests for additional functionality.
This tool was implemented and tested on Ubuntu Linux 16.04 and on MacOS 10.13 using Python 2.7. It is developed against Docker Registry version 2.5.1, but tested against 2.6.1 and latest (see https://hub.docker.com/r/library/registry/).
You need to install the Python modules requests and PyYAML:
$ pip install requests PyYAML
Be sure to configure your registry server to allow deletion (see https://docs.docker.com/registry/configuration/#/delete).
Prerequisites:
- Bash
- Locally installed Docker engine (remote execution is not yet implemented; runs with Docker for MacOS fine)
You can run all tests, with the runAllTests.sh script:
cd test
./runAllTests.sh
This will run all tests and repeat them for different versions of the Docker Registry.
To run a single test, change to the test/tests directory and run a test script:
cd test/tests
./simple_clean.sh
By default the test will start the Docker Registry from Docker Hub with the tag latest. To specify another registry version, write its Docker Hub tag to the environment variable REGISTRYTAG.
cd test/tests
export REGISTRYTAG=2.5.1
./simple_clean.sh