cleanDockerImages plugin should allow for ignoring cleanup on specific tags

[shubb30]

The cleanDockerImages plugin works really well.

The only problem I have with it is that in some of my docker images, I include the latest tag in addition to a build-specific tag.

When I push a new image with the latest tag, Artifactory overwrites the previous tag with the new version of the image, but the Created date stays the same. So when I run the cleanDockerImages plugin, it shows the latest tag in the list of artifacts to delete, which is not what I want.

What I propose is in addition to the maxCount and maxDays labels, there is a third label like keepTags, which would be a comma separated list of image tags that will never be deleted, regardless of the other two settings.

I tried taking a stab at writing this, but I am not sure how to get the docker image tag from the item object in the simpleTraverse function.

[karanmagdani]

I faced a similar issue, I updated the file here to add a check

• if parentRepoPath [does not] contain substring latest then add it to oldSet.

I am sure there are better ways of doing this, but this unblocked me for now

[agarwva2]

+1

[weakcamel]

if "latest" tag in active use, implementation of #333 would IMO mitigate this problem.

[harendrar8095]

Thanks for bringing this up!

As you can see in our documentation, we are working on a newer, recommended way to extend the JFrog Platform (including Artifactory) in a cloud-native way, called JFrog Workers. Unfortunately, this means that our focus and resources are directed toward that initiative, and we are not able to review and approve new PR or feature request at this time.

We’re closing this for now, but feel free to reopen it if you have any further queries!