In Docker, we cannot remove a running container, stop it first.
Stop all running containers.
Terminal
$ sudo docker stop $(sudo docker ps -aq)
Remove all stopped containers.
Terminal
$ sudo docker rm $(sudo docker ps -aq)
1. Stop Container
1.1 List all containers sudo docker ps
Terminal
$ sudo docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
9ab3de2442e2 spring-boot:1.0 "java -jar app.jar" 3 seconds ago Up 3 seconds 0.0.0.0:443->8443/tcp intelligent_mclean
9a2fe01d9df9 spring-boot:1.0 "java -jar app.jar" 28 seconds ago Up 27 seconds 0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp quizzical_curran
1.2 Stop a container by CONTAINER ID or NAMES
Terminal
$ sudo docker stop 9ab3de2442e2
$ sudo docker stop intelligent_mclean
1.3 Stop multiple containers by CONTAINER ID or NAMES
Terminal
$ sudo docker stop 9ab3de2442e2 9a2fe01d9df9
$ sudo docker stop intelligent_mclean quizzical_curran
1.4 Display container IDs for all containers.
Termimal
$ sudo docker ps -aq
9ab3de2442e2
9a2fe01d9df9
1.5 Combine sudo docker ps -aq with the stop command; we can stop all containers in one line.
Terminal
$ sudo docker stop $(sudo docker ps -aq)
2. Remove Container
2.1 Remove a container by CONTAINER ID or NAMES
Terminal
$ sudo docker rm 9ab3de2442e2
$ sudo docker rm intelligent_mclean
2.2 Remove multiple containers by CONTAINER ID or NAMES
Terminal
$ sudo docker rm 9ab3de2442e2 9a2fe01d9df9
$ sudo docker rm intelligent_mclean quizzical_curran
2.3 Remove all stopped containers.
Terminal
$ sudo docker rm $(sudo docker ps -aq)
3. docker system prune
This docker system prune clean the following stuff:
- all stopped containers
- all networks not used by at least one container
- all dangling images
- all dangling build cache
This purge command will save a lot of the hard disk space.
Terminal
$ sudo docker system prune
WARNING! This will remove:
- all stopped containers
- all networks not used by at least one container
- all dangling images
- all dangling build cache
Are you sure you want to continue? [y/N] y
Deleted Containers:
10b3f08a93df89818976a29c26f5ccefbda1e2dc2e0205a02e9a3306590a1455
89d9cb3e102dbadc9d314bea0db5feb3110931727e2da0b88d6d88d7d78f4400
49e429f26db40615557a85fdf758cd66afa208dba03f74aea860bb04bb4772b2
3e36a2c0c241f8b815ddc73f398cae97962a6799c244fd5169cd845023c5b657
...
Deleted Images:
deleted: sha256:fe111236265a30b8ec54390defb5da60cc7b76a0d3ff0e883691b8b3c663f2e9
deleted: sha256:2e591f44cd334c7896ed01660d45099f4f58169d0584163b6009dea56c3abcbe
deleted: sha256:8b1c255bf0e627c789fc35b3b3b0a1e5033f6be612e01dca08eb1aa4fd161364
...
Total reclaimed space: 251.3MB