Docker Housekeeping _ Removing Old Images and Containers

Some handy commands for tidying up old Docker images and containers…

Remove Named Images

docker rmi `docker images --filter 'dangling=true' -q --no-trunc`

Remove Images With a Particular Name Pattern

Ish via here.

For example, removing repo2docker default named containers which start r2d:

docker images | awk '{ print $1,$2, $3 }' | grep r2d | awk '{print $3 }' | xargs -I {} docker rmi {}

For added aggression, use rmi -f {}.

Remove Containers With a Particular Name Pattern

Via here.

docker ps -a | awk '{ print $1,$2 }' | grep r2d | awk '{print $1 }' | xargs -I {} docker rm {}

Remove Exited Containers

docker ps -a | grep Exit | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | xargs docker rm

PS lots of handy tips here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-remove-docker-images-containers-and-volumes