Pruning unused images from container registry

This is an unsupported functionality, use at your own risk.

Over time, while building Integrations, the produced images are stored in the container registry and it may become outdated and may require pruning old unused images.

Each container registry vendor can provide unique details about the pruning policy, check your vendor documentation.

It’s recommended only to delete container images from container registry if the corresponding Integration or IntegrationKit doesn’t exist anymore or has no expectation to be used. Then if you delete the container image, you should also delete corresponding Integrationkit custom resource object.

Camel K materializes the Camel integration in one of the two kubernetes objects: Deployment or CronJob.

You have to check if the Integration is running or scaled down to zero pods, which is the case for CronJobs or Knative deployments.

Then, we can provide some general guide about how to inspect the Camel K objects to prune unused images.

For this guide, we assume you are connected to the container registry with docker login.

Step 1: List all Camel K container images, prefixed with camel-k

$ docker images |grep k-kit
10.98.248.245/camel-k/camel-k-kit-cpth0mtf799b89lheon0  <none>  bd52ae6e32af   54 years ago    481MB
10.98.248.245/camel-k/camel-k-kit-cptguntf799b89lheok0  <none>  b7f347193b3c   54 years ago    471MB
10.98.248.245/camel-k/camel-k-kit-cptgv0tf799b89lheokg  <none>  8d2d963396ca   54 years ago    477MB
10.98.248.245/camel-k/camel-k-kit-cpth0mtf799b89lheomg  <none>  dc11800ef203   54 years ago    481MB
10.98.248.245/camel-k/camel-k-kit-cptgvd5f799b89lheol0  <none>  0bbdf20f2f49   54 years ago    479MB

Step 2: List the container images of the Camel K Integrations (don’t print the sha256 digest)

$ kubectl get -A it -oyaml|grep 'image:'|sed 's/^\s*image: //g;s/@sha256.*//g'|sort|uniq
10.98.248.245/camel-k/camel-k-kit-cptguntf799b89lheok0
10.98.248.245/camel-k/camel-k-kit-cptgv0tf799b89lheokg
10.98.248.245/camel-k/camel-k-kit-cptgvd5f799b89lheol0
10.98.248.245/camel-k/camel-k-kit-cpth0mtf799b89lheon0

Step 3: Compare them and remove the container images and IntegrationKit from list 1 not found in list 2

docker rmi dc11800ef203
kubectl delete ik/kit-cpth0mtf799b89lheomg

There is a prune-camel-k-kit-images.sh script to help you in this task. This script requires the following cli tools: kubectl, comm, docker. The script lists the dangling images from the container registry, it accepts two parameters with no arguments: -v (verbose) and -p (prune images).

An example of an execution:

$ prune-camel-k-kit-images.sh -p
> Images from container registry, eligible for pruning.
10.98.248.245/camel-k/camel-k-kit-cpth0mtf799b89lheom0

> Delete Container Images
integrationkit.camel.apache.org "kit-cpth0mtf799b89lheom0" deleted
Untagged: 10.98.248.245/camel-k/camel-k-kit-cpth0mtf799b89lheom0@sha256:3857f8e331e50ded6529641e668de8781eb3cb7b881ea14b89cfc4f6b6e9d455
Deleted: sha256:1015a6b18f164e9b086337e69a98e5850149c158cb778bac6059984756dc0528
Deleted: sha256:2f0d224916e77654c4401f6fc4b1147a9a6e3ccf713213c38e877d7b939bab81
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