Add Multiple Workspace Cleanup for Jenkins

Question

Can I have multiple Delete workspace when build is done executions in a single job?

• failure status: clear all workspace
• success status: clear only distribution package directories (**/target/dist)

We break our builds into compilation and test jobs with build-stalker plugin providing the link between the two. Compilation job doesn't clean up after itself as test job will do so but we don't run a test job for each compilation job (only the latest in a 4 hour period) leaving orphaned workspaces.

I'd like a way to have the orphaned workspaces have less impact and a selective status based cleanup is one way to do this.

Answer 1

I'm not aware of a Jenkins plugin that supplies such a feature.

I'd establish the following:

• Let each compile build write a line with its workspace path, e.g.:

  .../jenkins/workspace/<...compile job...>/

  by using a script in a language of your choice (bash, Groovy, cmd, ...) to a file like:

  .../jenkins/workspace/toBeWipedOut

• Create a job that runs a script in a language of your choice periodically that:

  • reads the file
  • deletes the workspaces mentioned therein except the last
  • removes all lines therein except the last

or

• Let each compile build write a line with its job name.
• See Wipe out workspaces of all jobs for how to wipe out workspaces by job name.