How to delete Azure pipeline artifacts after it's finished?

Question

I have the following pipeline structure:

Job A --> Generate build files
Parallel:
  Job B --> Uses the build files
  Job C --> Uses the build files
Job D --> Publishes the build files
Job E --> Release
On finish, I want to delete the build files completely

I'm not convinced of using artifacts (because of the time taken for upload/download) but it is what I seem to need to use in order to use files across jobs

At the end of the pipeline, I don't really need to keep the build files (AKA artifacts), so how can I just simply delete them on pipeline finish?

I am using azure-pipelines.yml.

Answer 1

As far I know there is no direct way of achieving this as there is not task for that, now Azure CLI command, nor Azure Rest API endpoint. What you can do here is to change retention policy and limit it via this: