Cleaning up Tekton pipeline runs

tekton-cleanup.yaml

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: cleaner
---
kind: Role
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
  name: cleaner
rules:
  - apiGroups: ["tekton.dev"]
    resources: ["pipelineruns"]
    verbs: ["delete", "get", "watch", "list"]
---
kind: RoleBinding
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
  name: cleaner-to-cleaner
roleRef:
  kind: Role
  name: cleaner
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
subjects:
  - kind: ServiceAccount
    name: cleaner
---
apiVersion: batch/v1beta1
kind: CronJob
metadata:
  name: cleanup-pipelineruns
spec:
  schedule: "*/15 * * * *"
  concurrencyPolicy: Forbid
  jobTemplate:
    spec:
      template:
        spec:
          restartPolicy: OnFailure
          serviceAccount: cleaner
          containers:
            - name: kubectl
              image: ghcr.io/ctron/kubectl:latest
              env:
                - name: NUM_TO_KEEP
                  value: "3"
              command:
                - /bin/bash
                - -c
                - |
                    TO_DELETE="$(kubectl get pipelinerun -o jsonpath='{range .items[?(@.status.completionTime)]}{.status.completionTime}{" "}{.metadata.name}{"\n"}{end}' | sort | head -n -${NUM_TO_KEEP} | awk '{ print $2}')"
                    test -n "$TO_DELETE" && kubectl delete pipelinerun ${TO_DELETE} || true

Thanks! This even works in our old k8s v1.11 environment!

Thanks for your gist to save my time. the following gist is supporting to clean all namespaces PipelineRun.

https://gist.github.com/AnyISalIn/9d22430d42fac100442b4b3ef0e0451f

here's a version that's also easy to use manually:

kubectl get pipelinerun --sort-by=.metadata.creationTimestamp -o name | head -n-$NUM_TO_KEEP | (while read -r NAME; do kubectl delete "$NAME"; done)

xargs is not available in the container, so we use a poor mans version instead (... | xargs kubectl delete otherwise).

An evolution of this CronJob keeping up to NUM_TO_KEEP of each Pipeline.

...
- name: kubectl
  image: docker.io/alpine/k8s:1.20.7
  env:
    - name: NUM_TO_KEEP
      value: "3"
  command:
    - /bin/bash
    - -c
    - >
      while read -r PIPELINE; do
        while read -r PIPELINE_TO_REMOVE; do
          test -n "${PIPELINE_TO_REMOVE}" || continue;
          kubectl delete ${PIPELINE_TO_REMOVE} \
              && echo "$(date -Is) PipelineRun ${PIPELINE_TO_REMOVE} deleted." \
              || echo "$(date -Is) Unable to delete PipelineRun ${PIPELINE_TO_REMOVE}.";
        done < <(kubectl get pipelinerun -l tekton.dev/pipeline=${PIPELINE} --sort-by=.metadata.creationTimestamp -o name | head -n -${NUM_TO_KEEP});
      done < <(kubectl get pipelinerun -o go-template='{{range .items}}{{index .metadata.labels "tekton.dev/pipeline"}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}' | uniq);

Full example with rbac at
https://gist.github.com/raelga/e75e6de4fd04be60f267128e985bde6d

Really thanks. This cron job is really helpful. I no longer need to delete those pipelineruns by my hand now. Saved a lot of time.

Thanks! It helped me to delete pipelinesruns sucessfully.....