Task 11: Create an Artifact Feed with Specific Retention Policies
Step 1: Navigate to Artifacts
In your Azure DevOps Project (Project1), click on the Artifacts section in the left menu.
Step 2: Create a New Feed
Click on the + New feed button.
In the Name field, enter:
nginx
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artifact_feed
Choose the visibility of the feed:
Project scoped (only accessible to Project1).
Or Organization scoped (accessible across your Azure DevOps organization).
Leave other settings at default unless you have specific permissions or upstream sources.
Click Create .
This creates a new feed named artifact_feed.
Step 3: Configure Retention Policies
In the Artifacts section, click on the feed named artifact_feed to open its details page.
In the top-right corner, click on the three dots (...) and select Feed settings .
Step 4: Set the Maximum Number of Versions to Retain
In the Feed settings page, find the Retention policies section.
Set Maximum number of versions per package to:
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10
This ensures that only the latest 10 versions of any package are retained in the feed.
Step 5: Set the Downloaded Package Retention Period
In the Feed settings page, under Retention policies , find Downloaded package retention .
Set Number of days to retain downloaded packages to:
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90
This ensures that downloaded packages will be retained in the cache for 90 days before deletion.
