Automatically remove Docker id BYOC once they are offline for > 1 day about website HOT 10 OPEN

Are those instances like disposable?

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@FeodorFitsner yes they're docker containers, so once they're gone, they're gone.

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Why would you need to constantly add/remove Docker clouds anyway? As it's not a common scenario you can just do a scheduled script deleting those clouds via AppVeyor API.

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I think if using Docker this is actually a very standard pattern.

If you run BYOC in Kubernetes or Docker these are going to be replaced with new containers with different auto-generated names over time naturally so you will accumulate lots of dead byoc references.

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I'm about to write a script for the AppVeyor API as a quick workaround as suggested, but cannot find much documentation for this:

https://www.appveyor.com/docs/api/

Is deleting old BYOC clouds documented anywhere?

I was gonna do a query, filter on offline and remove those so that it doesn't remove the currently active one...

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Documentation seems a bit thin, found this unofficial API doc:

https://kevinoid.github.io/appveyor-swagger/bootprint/

but even on there I can't see an endpoint to query and delete BYOC clouds.

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the best way to see an API call is in "Network" tab of your browser. UI uses the same API.

...still why would you need to run AppVeyor in a new container every time? You are supposed to install AppVeyor Host Agent to Docker host and host agent will be creating a new container for every build.

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Oh I see, you expect it installed in base and then it calls docker, so the agent id is always that of the underlying host... I had used it inside Docker itself as a temporary agent as other CI systems.

Will have a look at dumping the UI from the web browser, but it would be good to have an officially documented API.

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Just wrote a quick script to do this, it worked to clean up my account, thanks!

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We will documented, sure. We are currently migrating to .NET Core so there will be some changes.

This is more info about running Docker builds with AppVeyor: https://www.appveyor.com/docs/server/#docker-1

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