[docker] Stopping Docker containers by image name - Ubuntu

On Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) I'm looking for a way to stop a running container and the only information I have is the image name that was used in the Docker run command.

Is there a command to find all the matching running containers that match that image name and stop them?

I made a /usr/local/bin/docker.stop that takes in the image name (assumes you only have one running).

docker stop $(docker ps -q -f "name=$1")

This code will stop all containers with the image centos:6. I couldn't find an easier solution for that.

docker ps | grep centos:6 | awk '{print $1}' | xargs docker stop

Or even shorter:

docker stop $(docker ps -a | grep centos:6 | awk '{print $1}')

For Docker version 18.09.0 I found that format flag won't be needed

docker rm $(docker stop $(docker ps -a -q -f ancestor=<image-name>))

Two ways to stop running a container:

1. $docker stop container_ID

2. $docker kill container_ID

You can get running containers using the following command:

$docker ps

Following links for more information:

• https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/stop/
• https://docs.docker.com/v1.8/reference/commandline/kill/

The previous answers did not work for me, but this did:

docker stop $(docker ps -q --filter ancestor=<image-name> )

Stop docker container by image name:

imagename='mydockerimage'
docker stop $(docker ps | awk '{split($2,image,":"); print $1, image[1]}' | awk -v image=$imagename '$2 == image {print $1}')

Stop docker container by image name and tag:

imagename='mydockerimage:latest'
docker stop $(docker ps | awk -v image=$imagename '$2 == image {print $1}')

If you created the image, you can add a label to it and filter running containers by label

docker ps -q --filter "label=image=$image"

Unreliable methods

docker ps -a -q  --filter ancestor=<image-name>

does not always work

docker ps -a -q --filter="name=<containerName>"

filters by container name, not image name

docker ps | grep <image-name> | awk '{print $1}'

is problematic since the image name may appear in other columns for other images

You could start the container setting a container name:

docker run -d --name <container-name> <image-name>

The same image could be used to spin up multiple containers, so this is a good way to start a container. Then you could use this container-name to stop, attach... the container:

docker exec -it <container-name> bash
docker stop <container-name>
docker rm <container-name>

use: docker container stop $(docker container ls -q --filter ancestor=mongo)

    (base) :~ user$ docker ps
    CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                      NAMES
    d394144acf3a        mongo               "docker-entrypoint.s…"   15 seconds ago      Up 14 seconds       0.0.0.0:27017->27017/tcp   magical_nobel
    (base) :~ user$ docker container stop $(docker container ls -q --filter ancestor=mongo)
    d394144acf3a
    (base) :~ user$ docker ps
    CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND             CREATED             STATUS              PORTS               NAMES
    (base) :~ user$

You can use the ps command to take a look at the running containers:

docker ps -a

From there you should see the name of your container along with the container ID that you're looking for. Here's more information about docker ps.

If you want to prefer a simple AWK approach, here Is my take:

docker rm -f $(docker ps | awk '{ if($2 == "<your image name>") { print $NF}}')

$(docker ps | awk '{ if($2 == "<your image name>") { print $NF}}') - prints the docker container names based on input image

docker ps - list all containers

awk '{ if($2 == "<your-image-name>") { print $NF}}' - The second parsed column of docker ps gives the image name. Comparing it with your image name will execute print $NF which prints the container name.

docker rm -f removes the containers

For example, removing all running containers of ubuntu image, can be done simply as:

docker rm -f $(docker ps | awk '{ if($2 == "ubuntu:latest") { print $NF}}')

PS: Remember to include the image tag in AWK, since it's a equal comparator.

I was trying to wrap my Docker commands in gulp tasks and realised that you can do the following:

docker stop container-name
docker rm container-name

This might not work for scenarios where you have multiple containers with the same name (if that's possible), but for my use case it was perfect.

Adding on top of @VonC superb answer, here is a ZSH function that you can add into your .zshrc file:

dockstop() {
  docker rm $(docker stop $(docker ps -a -q --filter ancestor="$1" --format="{{.ID}}"))
}

Then in your command line, simply do dockstop myImageName and it will stop and remove all containers that were started from an image called myImageName.

In my case --filter ancestor=<image-name> was not working, so the following command cleaned up the Docker container for me:

docker rm $(docker stop $(docker ps -a -q --filter "name=container_name_here" --format="{{.ID}}"))

docker stop $(docker ps -a | grep "zalenium")
docker rm $(docker ps -a | grep "zalenium")

This should be enough.

list all containers with info and ID

docker ps

docker stop CONTAINER ID

This is my script to rebuild docker container, stop and start it again

docker pull [registry]/[image]:latest
docker build --no-cache -t [localregistry]/[localimagename]:latest -f compose.yaml context/
docker ps --no-trunc | grep [localimagename] | awk '{print $1}' | xargs docker stop
docker run -d -p 8111:80 [localregistry]/[localimagename]:latest

note --no-trunc argument which shows the image name or other info in full lenght in the output