Garbage collector for Docker Swarm

About

Image for automatic removing unused Docker Swarm objects. Also works just as Docker Service.

By default these types of objects are deleted:

• networks
• containers
• dangling images

Configuration

Set config parameters in the yml file:

• AGE - the max time for resource to be unused (format: timestamp or Go duration strings (10m, 1h30m))
• SLEEP - the time frame between checking for unused objects (format: timestamp or Go duration strings (10m, 1h30m))
• STICKY_LABEL - do not remove image with this label

Building image with STICKY_LABEL

If you need to protect an image from automatic deletion use LABEL directive, for example: permanent=true. To do it just create Dockerfile for you image .

FROM <IMAGENAME>
LABEL permanent=true

Before run the stack build the image from Dockerfile mentioned above:

docker-compose.yaml

...
  <SERVICENAME>
    container_name: <CONTAINERNAME>
    build:
      context: .
...

• <IMAGENAME> - the image which is protected from automatic deletion
• <SERVICENAME> - service name in the stack
• <CONTAINERNAME> - container name (optionally)

Also you should set STICKY_LABEL: permanent=true in the docker_gc run variables

Run

• docker-stack.yml - to deploy the service in Docker Swarm
• docker-compose.yml - to run just a Docker Service