docker-docker-gc-crond

Run docker-gc regularly under a cron job within a Docker container

Usage

Build

$ docker build -t flaccid/docker-gc-crond .

Run

Inherits the usage from https://github.com/eea/docker-gc/blob/master/README.md plus:

Typically:

$ docker run -itd -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock flaccid/docker-gc-crond

By default docker-gc will run every 30 minutes.

Runtime Environment Variables

There should be a reasonable amount of flexibility using the available variables. If not please raise an issue so your use case can be covered!

CRON_SCHEDULE - Defaults to 0,30 * * * * (on the hour and half hour)
LOG_TO_SYSLOG - 0 or 1
SYSLOG_FACILITY - Defaults to user
SYSLOG_LEVEL - Defaults to info
SYSLOG_TAG - Defaults to docker-gc
DRY_RUN - Defaults to false. Sets DRY_RUN_CONTAINERS and DRY_RUN_IMAGES in one option.
DRY_RUN_CONTAINERS - Defaults to false
DRY_RUN_IMAGES - Defaults to false
EXCLUDE_IMAGES - Space separated list of images to exclude
EXCLUDE_CONTAINERS - Space separated list of containers to exclude

Push to Docker Hub

$ docker push flaccid/docker-gc-crond

License and Authors

Author: Chris Fordham (chris@fordham-nagy.id.au)

Copyright 2016, Chris Fordham

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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