Instruct CDK to remove old assets after deploy

[thekevinbrown]

Currently when code assets are updated, a new version is stored in S3. These versions pile up, and there's no built in way to remove the old ones.

Use Case

We're using several Code assets to deploy NodeJS lambda functions to AWS. After a number of deploys, there are 38 files in the staging bucket that are managed by the CDK.

Proposed Solution

It'd be nice to be able to pass a flag to the CDK, either via the cdk.json file, as a switch on the command line, or from within the CDK code itself to tell it how many old versions to keep around so the S3 bucket doesn't balloon over time.

Alternatively if there were an easy separate command or script I could run to remove the old versions, that'd work too.

Other

• 👋 I may be able to implement this feature request
• ⚠️ This feature might incur a breaking change

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This is a 🚀 Feature Request

[eladb]

Duplicate with aws/aws-cdk-rfcs#64