Remove Old Artifacts
A GitHub Action for customizing artifact cleanup with age-based removal, tag retention, and recent artifact preservation.
What is Remove Old Artifacts?
gha-remove-artifacts is a GitHub Action that customizes the cleanup of workflow artifacts. It solves the problem of uncontrolled artifact storage by allowing users to define retention policies based on age, release status, and recency. This helps optimize storage usage and maintain a clean CI/CD environment.
Developers and DevOps engineers using GitHub Actions who need to manage artifact storage efficiently, especially in repositories with frequent builds or limited storage.
It provides more granular control than GitHub's built-in retention settings, enabling automated, policy-based cleanup that respects important artifacts like releases while removing outdated ones.
Overview
GitHub Action to customize artifact cleanup
Use Cases
Best For
- Keeping release artifacts long-term while removing non-release artifacts quickly
- Retaining only the most recent N artifacts to save storage
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