Script-to-remove-old-pipeliness-and-artefacts.md

@@ -9,3 +9,36 @@ To faciliate this, the teams can use the attached script. You'll need to define
 • **PROJECTID** : Specific project id where the pipelines are to be removed
 
 (The script has been adapted and shared by @Joao-Diogo.NUNES-CARTAXO)
+
+```
+# Purpose: Bulk-delete GitLab pipelines older than a given date# Define some variables
+GITLABURL="https://code.europa.eu"
+ACCESSTOKEN=""
+DELETEBEFORE="2024-04-01" #date range format: yyyy-mm-dd
+PROJECTID=
+######################################################################### Function to get all items from a paginated GitLab API endpoint
+get_all_items() {
+local endpoint=$1
+local array_name=$2
+local page=1
+while true; do
+response=$(curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $ACCESSTOKEN" "$GITLABURL/$endpoint?page=$page&per_page=100&updated_before="$DELETEBEFORE"T23:01:00.000Z" 2>/dev/null)
+current_items=$(echo "$response" | jq -r 'if length > 0 then .[] | .id else empty end')
+if [ -z "$current_items" ]; then
+break
+fi
+eval "$array_name+=( $current_items )"
+page=$((page + 1))
+done
+}# Get project name
+PROJECTNAME=$(curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $ACCESSTOKEN" "$GITLABURL/api/v4/projects/$PROJECTID" 2>/dev/null | jq -r '.path_with_namespace')# Find out pipeline IDs of our project which match the date range and write results into array
+pipeline_array=()
+get_all_items "api/v4/projects/$PROJECTID/pipelines" pipeline_array# Count how many pipelines we found out
+NUMOFPIPES=${#pipeline_array[@]}# Print statistics
+echo -e "---\nTask $COUNTER: Project $PROJECTNAME (ID:$PROJECTID) has $NUMOFPIPES pipelines to delete."# Print all pipeline IDs from the array
+for pipelineid in "${pipeline_array[@]}"; do
+echo "Deleting pipeline ID: ${pipelineid} -> $GITLABURL/api/v4/projects/$PROJECTID/pipelines/${pipelineid}"
+# Call DELETE API for each elected pipeline
+curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $ACCESSTOKEN" --request "DELETE" "$GITLABURL/api/v4/projects/$PROJECTID/pipelines/$pipelineid"
+done
+```
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