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Delete ghcr.io package tag

v1.0.2

Delete ghcr.io package tag

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Delete ghcr.io package tag

Delete a tagged package from ghcr.io

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

 
              
- name: Delete ghcr.io package tag

              
  uses: chipkent/action-cleanup-package@v1.0.2
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action-cleanup-package

This is a GitHub Action to delete GitHub packages. It is very useful to clean up unneeded Docker images in the GitHub Container Registry (ghcr.io) after a PR is closed.

The example below removes Docker images in ghcr.io with the specified package name and tag. Here, github-token is set to a secret, CI_ACTION_TOKEN, which is a personal access token with package deletion permissions.

# Delete Docker images after PR merge
#

name: 'Clean up Docker images from PR'

on:
  pull_request:
    types: [closed]

jobs:
  purge-image:
    name: Delete image from ghcr.io
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: chipkent/action-cleanup-package@v1.0.1
        with:
          package-name: ${{ github.event.repository.name }}
          tag: pr-${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
          github-token: ${{ secrets.CI_ACTION_TOKEN }}