Clean up old VM instances after a jenkins restart

[bdattoma]

What feature do you want to see added?

Context
We have an Openstack VM configured in jenkins casc.yaml to have a minimum instance number of 1.

Problem
After we restart Jenkins (i.e., rollout the Jenkins pod or kill and start the container), the plugin launches a new VM instance and leave the old one running in the cloud. This is making things difficult to manage given that we end up with multiple long running VMs which are never used.

Request
Would it be possible either:

1. clean up the old VMs after jenkins is restarted - maybe the plugin could filter the VMs present in the cloud using the VM labels (e.g., JENKINS_URL or something else)
2. capture the jenkins restart/stop and send a termination signal to the VMs - although, even if doable, it may not work with containerized jenkins
3. maybe some other options i'm not thinking about

Additional Info

• reloading configuration via Jenkins UI doesn't seem to be reproducing the same behavior
• retentionTime is not set in our current configuration, due to malfunctioning faced in v2.65 (i.e., instance not being terminated Virtual machine cleanup no longer works since Jenkins version 2.482 #384). However I guess it wouldn't change this situation right?

Upstream changes

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Are you interested in contributing this feature?

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