docs: troubleshooting entry for host orphan-image accumulation
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Document why host-label builds leave orphan images on the Docker host and the
post-push cleanup + one-time prune pattern.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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```bash ```bash
./scripts/verify-runtime.sh custom-gitea-runner:latest ./scripts/verify-runtime.sh custom-gitea-runner:latest
``` ```
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## Orphan images piling up on the host (disk filling)
**Symptom:** The Unraid Docker page (or `docker images`) shows a growing list of
`(orphan image)` entries — both tagged (`registry.alwisp.com/<owner>/<repo>:latest`)
and untagged (bare image IDs) — that nothing created intentionally.
**Cause:** Jobs that run on the `host` label use the **host Docker daemon** via the
mounted socket. Every `docker build` leaves its output image on the host, and each
rebuild orphans the previous one (the moved tag leaves the old image dangling).
Multi-stage build layers add more. Nothing removes them automatically, so they
accumulate and consume the array.
**Fix:** Have Docker-build workflows clean up after pushing to the registry:
```yaml
- name: Clean up build images on host
if: always()
run: |
IMAGE="registry.alwisp.com/${{ gitea.repository }}"
docker image rm -f "${IMAGE}:latest" 2>/dev/null || true
docker image prune -f 2>/dev/null || true # removes dangling layers (host-wide)
```
The image lives in the registry after `docker push`, so removing the local copy is
safe. `docker image prune -f` only removes **dangling** (untagged) images, not
tagged base images, so rebuilds stay fast. Note it acts host-wide — fine on a
dedicated runner host; be aware if the host runs unrelated build tooling.
**One-time cleanup** of images left by earlier builds (run on the host):
```bash
docker images --format '{{.Repository}}:{{.Tag}}' \
| grep '^registry.alwisp.com/' | xargs -r docker rmi -f
docker image prune -f
```