• Include details about your goal:

I wish to set one artifacts expire_in for all artifacts of the pipeline in gitlab, just once, without having to set it per job (multiple times).

• Describe what I have tried:

In my gitlab ci yml file, I have this at the top of the file:

default:
  artifacts:
    expire_in: 2 mins 42 secs

• Describe expected results:

I was expecting with this setup, all artifacts produced from the pipeline would take into account the expiry time.

• Describe actual results:

Unfortunately, it seems none of the jobs are picking up on the expiry time. Meaning, the artifacts stay for weeks.

• Question:

How to tell gitlab to set one common expiry time for all the artifacts of the pipeline, without having to do that (I have many many jobs)

jobone:
  image: someimage
  stage: somestage
  script:
    - echo running some script which will produce some artifact
  artifacts:
    paths: [ path/to/myartifact ]
    expire_in: 2 mins 42 secs

jobtwo:
  image: someimage
  stage: somestage
  script:
    - echo running some script which will produce some other artifact
  artifacts:
    paths: [ path/to/myartifact ]
    expire_in: 2 mins 42 secs

[...]

jobseventy:
  image: someimage
  stage: somestage
  script:
    - echo running some script which will produce some other other artifact
  artifacts:
    paths: [ path/to/myartifact ]
    expire_in: 2 mins 42 secs

With the approach of setting the expiry time per job, it works, but I have some seventy steps in my pipeline, so duplicating the expiry time N times.

Is there a way to set it up just once, and have all steps that produce artifacts to pick on the time?