$ docker rmi 612866ff4869 e19e33310e49 abe0cd4b2ebc #remove multiple images. A more convenient solution is to use the -f filter flag to list all dangling images. To delete these images and clean up disk space, use one of the following commands: $ docker image prune #interactively remove dangling images. Or $ docker rmi $(docker images -q -f.
Contents- Delete Docker Image
Delete Docker Image
Sometimes, when you run a docker image and then try to delete it, you might get an error message similar to following :
Error response from daemon: conflict: unable to delete 2867b9f04038 (must be forced) – image is being used by stopped container caff7e1e3508 |
We shall present you a step-by-step guide to delete a docker image properly.
Stop the container
You can get the container id from the error message. “image is being used by stopped containercaff7e1e3508” Following is the syntax to stop the container.$ docker stop <containerid> Example :root@arjun-VPCEH26EN:/home/arjun/workspace/docker# docker stop caff7e1e3508The container is stopped and echos back with the container id.Remove the container
Once the container is stopped, we have to remove the container. Following is the syntax to remove the container :$ docker rm <containerid> Example :root@arjun-VPCEH26EN:/home/arjun/workspace/docker# docker rm caff7e1e3508Remove Docker Image
Once the container is removed, we are good to go with removing Docker Image Following is the syntax to remove the image :$ docker rmi <imageid> Example :root@arjun-VPCEH26EN:/home/arjun/workspace/docker# docker rmi 2867b9f04038Deleted:sha256:2867b9f04038b6a8e4ffdad800d4ea9ad7fa8ba1ea5fd4e967e7731ef615199dDeleted:sha256:d858962818586481bb955bb5791e775e37411b0f9e870fe9826858928c53410aDeleted:sha256:a81438c31d4f1ec303b4872cabe239907e8e8cecf6787505bb28085c20b25f82root@arjun-VPCEH26EN:/home/arjun/workspace/docker#The docker image is removed successfully.
Conclusion :
In this Docker Tutorial – Delete Docker Image, we have successfully removed the image from Docker’s images.
I'm running Docker under Vagrant under OS X 10.8.4 (Mountain Lion), and whenever I try to delete a saved image, I get an error:
According to the
rmi
help, the proper syntax is docker rmi IMAGE [IMAGE...]
, and I'm not sure what to make of that.How can I delete an image?
Interestingly, when I run
Peter Mortensendocker ps
, no containers show up at all. Running docker images
shows four (4) base
images and one (1) node
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Try
docker rmi node
. That should work. Seeing all created containers is as simple as
docker ps -a
. To remove all existing containers (not images!) run
Anthonydocker rm $(docker ps -aq)
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The following are some of the ways to remove docker images/containers:
Remove single image
Remove all images
Kill containers and remove them:
Note: Replace
kill
with stop
for graceful shutdownRemove all images except 'my-image'
Use grep to remove all except
my-image
and ubuntu
Or (without awk)
docker rmi $(docker images --quiet | grep -v $(docker images --quiet ubuntu:my-image))
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To remove an image from Docker using the image ID:
- Get the list of all Images
- Identify the image ID of the image you want to delete, for example:
- Finally remove the image using the image ID (only the first three digits are required)
![Remove Remove](/uploads/1/2/5/0/125024953/195415255.png)
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Image:
- List imagesdocker images
- Remove one imagedocker rmi image_name
- Force remove one imagedocker rmi -f image_name
Container:
- List all containersdocker ps -a
- Remove one containerdocker rm container_id
- Force remove one containerdocker rm -f container_id
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Update, as commented by VonC in How to remove old Docker containers.
With Docker 1.13 (Q4 2016), you now have:
docker system prune
will delete ALL unused data (i.e., in order: containers stopped, volumes without containers and images with no containers).See PR 26108 and commit 86de7c0, which are introducing a few new commands to help facilitate visualizing how much space the Docker daemon data is taking on disk and allowing for easily cleaning up 'unneeded' excess.
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Removing Containers
- To remove a specific container
- For single image
- For multiple images
- Remove exited containers
- Remove all the containers
Removing Images
- Remove specific images
- for single image
- for multiple images
- Remove dangling images
Dangling images are layers that have no relationship to any tagged images as the Docker images are constituted of multiple images. - Remove all Docker images
Removing Volumes
To list volumes, run
docker volume ls
- Remove a specific volume
- Remove dangling volumes
- Remove a container and its volumes
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docker rm container_name
docker rmi image_name
docker help
![Docker Remove Image Docker Remove Image](/uploads/1/2/5/0/125024953/778235906.jpg)
rm Remove one or more containers
rmi Remove one or more images
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Error response from daemon: Conflict, cannot delete 91c95931e552 because the container 76068d66b290 is using it, use -f to force FATA[0000] Error: failed to remove one or more images
Find container ID,
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First of all, we have to stop and remove the Docker containers which are attached with the Docker image that we are going to remove.
So for that, first
docker stop container-id
- To stop the running containerdocker rm container-id
- To delete/remove the container
then,
docker rmi image-id
- To delete/remove the image
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For versions 1.13 and higher:
Comparing:
- the documention of
docker image rm
and - the documentation of
docker rmi
,
the
[OPTIONS]
seem to have no difference.From: Introducing Docker 1.13
In Docker 1.13, we regrouped every command to sit under the logical object it’s interacting with. For example
list
and start
of containers are now subcommands of docker container
and history
is a subcommand of docker image
.These changes let us clean up the Docker CLI syntax, improve help text and make Docker simpler to use. The old command syntax is still supported, but we encourage everybody to adopt the new syntax.
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Delete all of them using
Step 1: Kill all containers
Step 2: RM them first
Step 3: Delete the images using force
Use the step 1 in case you are getting error saying it cant be deleted owing to child dependencies
chandankchandank
If you want to automatically/periodically clean up exited containers and remove images and volumes that aren't in use by a running container you can download the image
meltwater/docker-cleanup
.I use this on production since we deploy several times a day on multiple servers, and I don't want to go to every server to clean up (that would be a pain).
Just run:
It will run every 30 minutes (or however long you set it using DELAY_TIME=1800 option) and clean up exited containers and images.
More details: https://github.com/meltwater/docker-cleanup/blob/master/README.md
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Docker provides some command to remove
images
.Show/Remove
Images
:Also, you can also use
filter
parameters to remove set of images at once:Example:
So you can delete that filter images like this:
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Here's a shell script to remove a tagged (named) image and it's containers.Save as docker-rmi and run using 'docker-rmi my-image-name'
Alex MAlex M
For me the following worked fine:
Then go ahead and remove an image by running some like these:
JulischJulisch
List images:
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE 88282f8eda00 19 seconds ago 308.5 MB 13e5d3d682f4 19 hours ago 663 MB busybox2 latest 05fe66bb1144 20 hours ago 1.129 MB ubuntu 16.04 00fd29ccc6f1 5 days ago 110.5 MB ubuntu 14.04 67759a80360c 5 days ago 221.4 MB python 2.7 9e92c8430ba0 7 days ago 680.7 MB busybox latest 6ad733544a63 6 weeks ago 1.129 MB ubuntu 16.10 7d3f705d307c 5 months ago 106.7 MB
Delete images:
Deleted: sha256:88282f8eda0036f85b5652c44d158308c6f86895ef1345dfa788318e6ba31194 Deleted: sha256:4f211a991fb392cd794bc9ad8833149cd9400c5955958c4017b1e2dc415e25e9 Deleted: sha256:8cc6917ac7f0dcb74969ae7958fe80b4a4ea7b3223fc888dfe1aef42f43df6f8 Deleted: sha256:b74a8932cff5e61c3fd2cc39de3c0989bdfd5c2e5f72b8f99f2807595f8ece43
Error response from daemon: conflict: unable to delete 13e5d3d682f4 (must be forced) - image is being used by stopped container 5593e25eb638
Delete by force:
Deleted: sha256:13e5d3d682f4de973780b35a3393c46eb314ef3db45d3ae83baf2dd9d702747e Deleted: sha256:3ad9381c7041c03768ccd855ec86caa6bc0244223f10b0465c4898bdb21dc378 Deleted: sha256:5ccb917bce7bc8d3748eccf677d7b60dd101ed3e7fd2aedebd521735276606af Deleted: sha256:18356d19b91f0abcc04496729c9a4c49e695dbfe3f0bb1c595f30a7d4d264ebf
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