Cleaning up Docker containers

Containers

Stop a container

$ docker container stop <container-id-or-name>

Stop all containers.

$ docker stop $(docker ps -aq)

Remove a container. Won’t stop a running container.

$ docker container rm <ID>

Forcibly remove a running container.

$ docker container rm -f <ID>

Remove multiple containers

$ docker container rm <ID-1> <ID-2> <ID-3>

Remove all containers. Will fail for running containers.

$ docker rm $(docker ps -aq)

Volumes

View dangling volumes

$ docker volume ls -qf dangling=true

Remove unused volumes

$ docker volume prune