Purge unused containers kubernetes

3/1/2016

I'm looking for the standard way to purge all unused container with a kubernetes on all nodes. Now I'm doing like this.

purge.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# vim: tabstop=8 expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
#  Author:  Ali Said Omar
#  Created: '01/03/2016'
NODES=


function get_nodes(){
    # --label-columns=NAME does not filter on NAME column
    NODES=`kubectl get nodes --label-columns=NAME --no-headers | awk '{print $1}'`
}

function purge_on_nodes(){
    for NODE in $NODES
    do
        glcoud compute ssh $NODE -A "sudo docker ps -aq | xargs sudo docker rm"
    done
}

get_nodes
purge_on_nodes
-- Ali SAID OMAR
google-cloud-platform
kubernetes

2 Answers

3/1/2016

Use Kubernetes Garbage collector. There are settings (minimum-container-ttl-duration), which will help you to purge old containers.

-- Jan Garaj
Source: StackOverflow

3/1/2016

There is no standard way to do this, because the system is meant to take care of it for you. Is there a particular reason that you need to do so? Or is the system malfunctioning in some way?

-- Alex Robinson
Source: StackOverflow