Cleanup your docker daemon periodically

Reason

I am running a gitlab worker for building my arm docker images. Usally it takes a few weeks until the worker is out of disk space.

To prevent this problem I created this small docker utility.

Cleanup

The following commands will be triggered on startup of the container.

docker system prune -f --all --volumes

This will delete all unused containers, unbound volumes and unused images.

After the cleanup-commands are processed the container will delay the cleanup for the next 24 hours.

Advise about persistent data

Please be aware that volumes may contain data that should be persisted! Use this image only if you don't store any persistent data on docker volumes!

Usage

docker container run \
    -d \
    --restart unless-stopped \
    -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
    jaedle/cleanup-docker:latest

Parameters

The interval of the cleanup (default 24 hours) can be configured through the environment variable CLEANUP_RATE specified in seconds.

This will cleanup each hour:

docker container run \
    -d \
    --restart unless-stopped \
    -e CLEANUP_RATE=3600 \
    -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
    jaedle/cleanup-docker:latest