jenkins/system/delete_old_containers.sh

#!/bin/bash
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# A helper routine that cleans up old container images based
# on an input prefix to check. Jenkins builds will add an incrementing
# build suffix  (build number) to the prefix
#
# 
#$1 container prefix name

keep_number=1
prefix=$1

# keep the first build
keep=$(lxc list | grep $prefix | awk '{print $2}' | sort -rn | head -n$keep_number)
for container in $(lxc list | grep $prefix | awk '{print $2}' | sort -rn); do
    if [ "$container" != "$keep" ]; then
        echo "deleting old container $container"
        lxc delete $container --force
    fi
done