Installation from binary¶

Download¶

Artifactory Cleanup binaries are available on releases page.

Choose the archive matching the destination platform:

And extract Artifactory Cleanup:

wget -qO- https://github.com/crazy-max/artifactory-cleanup/releases/download/v1.7.0/artifactory-cleanup_1.7.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz | tar -zxvf - artifactory-cleanup

After getting the binary, it can be tested with ./artifactory-cleanup --help command and moved to a permanent location.

Server configuration¶

Steps below are the recommended server configuration.

Prepare environment¶

Create user to run Artifactory Cleanup (ex. artifactory-cleanup)

groupadd artifactory-cleanup
useradd -s /bin/false -d /bin/null -g artifactory-cleanup artifactory-cleanup

Create required directory structure¶

mkdir -p /var/lib/artifactory-cleanup
chown artifactory-cleanup:artifactory-cleanup /var/lib/artifactory-cleanup/
chmod -R 750 /var/lib/artifactory-cleanup/
mkdir /etc/artifactory-cleanup
chown artifactory-cleanup:artifactory-cleanup /etc/artifactory-cleanup
chmod 770 /etc/artifactory-cleanup

Configuration¶

Create your first configuration file in /etc/artifactory-cleanup/artifactory-cleanup.yml and type:

chown artifactory-cleanup:artifactory-cleanup /etc/artifactory-cleanup/artifactory-cleanup.yml
chmod 644 /etc/artifactory-cleanup/artifactory-cleanup.yml

Copy binary to global location¶

cp artifactory-cleanup /usr/local/bin/artifactory-cleanup

Running Artifactory Cleanup¶

After the above steps, two options to run Artifactory Cleanup:

1. Creating a service file (recommended)¶

See how to create Linux service to start Artifactory Cleanup automatically.

2. Running from terminal¶

/usr/local/bin/artifactory-cleanup \
  --config /etc/artifactory-cleanup/artifactory-cleanup.yml \
  --dry-run

Updating to a new version¶

You can update to a new version of Artifactory Cleanup by stopping it, replacing the binary at /usr/local/bin/artifactory-cleanup and restarting the instance.

If you have carried out the installation steps as described above, the binary should have the generic name artifactory-cleanup. Do not change this, i.e. to include the version number.

Last update: 2021-08-21 22:00:18
Created: 2020-09-24 14:21:34