Deleting a lifecycle policy

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Yandex Cloud

Updated at July 29, 2025

Management console

CLI

Terraform

API

In the management console, select the folder where the registry was created.
In the list of services, select Container Registry.
Select the registry and click the row with its name.
Select the repository and click the row with its name.
In the left-hand panel, click Lifecycle.
Click for the appropriate policy and select Delete.
In the window that opens, click Delete.

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI installed yet, install and initialize it.

Delete the policy by specifying its ID:
```
yc container repository lifecycle-policy delete <policy_ID>
```
To find out the policy ID, get a list of lifecycle policies in a repository or registry.

Make sure that the policy was deleted:

yc container repository lifecycle-policy list --repository-name crp2hlbs67tj********/ubuntu

Result:

+----+------+---------------+--------+---------+-------------+
| ID | NAME | REPOSITORY ID | STATUS | CREATED | DESCRIPTION |
+----+------+---------------+--------+---------+-------------+
+----+------+---------------+--------+---------+-------------+

If you do not have Terraform yet, install it and configure the Yandex Cloud provider.

Open the configuration file and delete the fragment with the policy description:

Sample policy description in the Terraform configuration

resource "yandex_container_repository_lifecycle_policy" "my_lifecycle_policy" {
  name          = "best-policy"
  status        = "active"
  repository_id = "crpfvi6o4ra7********"

  rule {
    description   = "rule for applying policy"
    untagged      = true
    tag_regexp    = ".*"
    retained_top  = 1
    expire_period = "48h"
  }
}

Apply the changes:
1. In the terminal, go to the directory where you edited the configuration file.
2. Make sure the configuration file is correct using this command:
```
terraform validate
```
  If the configuration is correct, you will get this message:
```
Success! The configuration is valid.
```
3. Run this command:
```
terraform plan
```
  You will see a detailed list of resources. No changes will be made at this step. If the configuration contains any errors, Terraform will show them.
4. Apply the changes:
```
terraform apply
```
5. Type yes and press Enter to confirm the changes.

This will delete the lifecycle policy from the specified repository. You can check the deletion of the policy using the management console or this CLI command:

yc container repository lifecycle-policy list --registry-id <registry_ID>

To delete a policy, use the Delete method for the LifecyclePolicyService resource. Specify the policy ID in the lifecycle_policy_id parameter.

You can retrieve a list of policies using the List method for the LifecyclePolicyService resource.

Deleting a lifecycle policy

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