How does one remove a Docker image

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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     docker rmi some-image-id 2013 07 15 hh mm ss unexpected JSON input   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     docker version Client version  0 4 8 Server version  0 4 8 Go version  go1 1        docker info Containers  1 Images  3   Interestingly  when I run docker ps  no containers show up at all  Running docker images shows four  4  base images and one  1  node image

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For me the following worked fine    gt  docker images REPOSITORY   TAG           IMAGE ID          CREATED             SIZE debian       jessie        86baf4e8cde9      3 weeks ago         123MB ubuntu       yakkety       7d3f705d307c      3 weeks ago         107MB alpine       3 5           074d602a59d7      7 weeks ago         3 99MB   Then go ahead and remove an image by running some like these    gt  docker rmi debian jessie  gt  docker rmi ubuntu yakkety  gt  docker rmi alipine 3 5

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Image    List images     docker images  Remove one image     docker rmi image name  Force remove one image     docker rmi -f image name    Container    List all containers     docker ps -a  Remove one container     docker rm  container id  Force remove one container     docker rm -f  container id

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To remove an image from Docker using the image ID    Get the list of all Images  docker images  Identify the image ID of the image you want to delete  for example   REPOSITORY     TAG     IMAGE ID        CREATED        VIRTUAL SIZE kweku360 java  latest  08d3a9b8e166    2 weeks ago         5 733 GB   Finally remove the image using the image ID  only the first three digits are required   docker rmi 08d

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Delete all docker containers  docker rm   docker ps -a -q    Delete all docker images  docker rmi   docker images -q

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In my case the probleme is that I have tow images withe same name  the solution is to add the tag after the name or the id  sudo docker rmi  lt NAME gt   lt TAG gt    ex   sudo docker rmi php 7 0 4-fpm

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For versions 1 13 and higher  docker image rm  OPTIONS  IMAGE  IMAGE      Comparing   the documention of docker image rm and the documentation of docker rmi   the  OPTIONS  seem to have no difference  --force   -f        Force removal of the image --no-prune          Do not delete untagged parents  From  Introducing Docker 1 13  CLI restructured 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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List images   ahanjura ubuntu    sudo docker 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   ahanjura ubuntu    sudo docker rmi 88282f8eda00      Deleted  sha256 88282f8eda0036f85b5652c44d158308c6f86895ef1345dfa788318e6ba31194   Deleted  sha256 4f211a991fb392cd794bc9ad8833149cd9400c5955958c4017b1e2dc415e25e9   Deleted  sha256 8cc6917ac7f0dcb74969ae7958fe80b4a4ea7b3223fc888dfe1aef42f43df6f8   Deleted  sha256 b74a8932cff5e61c3fd2cc39de3c0989bdfd5c2e5f72b8f99f2807595f8ece43   ahanjura ubuntu    sudo docker rmi 13e5d3d682f4      Error response from daemon  conflict  unable to delete 13e5d3d682f4  must be forced  - image is being used by stopped container 5593e25eb638   Delete by force   ahanjura ubuntu    sudo docker rmi -f 13e5d3d682f4      Deleted  sha256 13e5d3d682f4de973780b35a3393c46eb314ef3db45d3ae83baf2dd9d702747e   Deleted  sha256 3ad9381c7041c03768ccd855ec86caa6bc0244223f10b0465c4898bdb21dc378   Deleted  sha256 5ccb917bce7bc8d3748eccf677d7b60dd101ed3e7fd2aedebd521735276606af   Deleted  sha256 18356d19b91f0abcc04496729c9a4c49e695dbfe3f0bb1c595f30a7d4d264ebf

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Why nobody mentioned docker-compose  I  ve just been using it for one week  and I cannot survive without it  All you need is writing a yml which takes only several minutes of studying  and then you are ready to go  It can boot images  containers  which are needed in so-called services  and let you review logs just like you use with docker native commands  Git it a try   docker-compose up -d docker-compose down --rmi  local    Before I used docker-compose  I wrote my own shell script  then I had to customize the script whenever needed especially when application architecture changed  Now I don t have to do this anymore  thanks to docker-compose

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docker rmi  91c95931e552      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     docker ps -a    docker rm  daf644660736

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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      bin bash  IMAGE  1  if     IMAGE            then   echo  Missing image argument    exit 2 fi  docker ps -qa -f  ancestor  IMAGE    xargs docker rm docker rmi  IMAGE

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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   docker run -d -v  var run docker sock  var run docker sock rw  -v  var lib docker  var lib docker rw --restart unless-stopped meltwater docker-cleanup latest   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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Removing Containers   To remove a specific container  docker rm CONTAINER ID CONTAINER ID    For single image  docker rm  70c0e19168cf  For multiple images  docker rm  70c0e19168cf c2ce80b62174   Remove exited containers  docker ps -a -f status exited  Remove all the containers  docker ps -q -a   xargs docker rm      Removing Images  docker rmi IMAGE ID    Remove specific images   for single image  docker rmi ubuntu  for multiple images  docker rmi ubuntu alpine   Remove dangling images  Dangling images are layers that have no relationship to any tagged images as the Docker images are constituted of multiple images   docker rmi -f   docker images -f dangling true -q   Remove all Docker images  docker rmi -f   docker images -a -q       Removing Volumes  To list volumes  run docker volume ls   Remove a specific volume  docker volume rm VOLUME NAME  Remove dangling volumes  docker volume rm   docker volume ls -f dangling true -q   Remove a container and its volumes  docker rm -v CONTAINER NAME

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The following are some of the ways to remove docker images containers   Remove single image  docker rmi image name version image-id   Remove all images  docker rmi   docker images -qf  dangling true     Kill containers and remove them   docker rm   docker kill   docker ps -aq     Note  Replace kill with stop for graceful shutdown  Remove all images except  my-image   Use grep to remove all except my-image and ubuntu  docker rmi   docker images   grep -v  ubuntu  my-image    awk   print  3      Or  without awk   docker rmi   docker images --quiet   grep -v   docker images --quiet ubuntu my-image

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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   docker system prune  WARNING  This will remove      - all stopped containers     - all volumes not used by at least one container     - all images without at least one container associated to them Are you sure you want to continue   y N  y

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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 container docker rm container-id    - To delete remove the container   then    docker rmi image-id       - To delete remove the image

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Delete all of them using  Step 1  Kill all containers  for i in  sudo docker ps -a   awk    print  1      do sudo docker kill  i   done   Step 2  RM them first  for i in  sudo docker ps -a   awk    print  1      do sudo docker rm  i   done   Step 3  Delete the images using force   for i in  sudo docker images   awk    print  3     do  sudo docker rmi --force  i   done   Use the step 1 in case you are getting error saying it cant be deleted owing to child dependencies

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docker rm container name  docker rmi image name     docker help      rm        Remove one or more containers      rmi       Remove one or more images

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Docker provides some command to remove images      Show Remove Images    docker images docker images -a   All images docker images --no-trunc   List the full length image IDs  docker images --filter  dangling true     Show unstage images docker rmi   docker images -f  dangling true  -q    Remove on unstages images  docker rmi  lt REPOSITORY gt  or  lt Image ID gt    Remove a single image  docker image prune   Interactively remove dangling images docker image prune -a   Remove all images  or   docker rmi -f   sudo docker images -a -q       Also  you can also use filter parameters to remove set of images at   once    Example    docker images --filter  before  lt hello-world gt      It will all images before hello-world   docker images --filter  since  lt hello-world gt      It will all images since hello-world   So you can delete that filter images like this   docker rmi   docker images --filter  since  lt hello-world gt    docker rmi   docker images --filter  before  lt hello-world gt

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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 docker rm   docker ps -aq

[docker] How does one remove a Docker image?

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