How to Remove Images and Containers in Docker

Sometimes we might need to remove docker containers and images. This blog will guide you for the steps needed to do so.

Remove All Image [At Once]

To remove all images: docker rmi $(docker images -q)

Remove Multiple images

To remove multiple images at one command, you can follow this: docker rmi <your-image-id> <your-image-id>

Remove Container by name:

Removes containers by their name or ID: docker rm

First you need to stop running container, before deleting them.

Stop all running containers: docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)

Delete all stopped containers: docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)

Remove multiple containers

You can stop and delete multiple containers by passing the commands a list of the containers you want to remove.

docker ps list containers
-a the option to list all containers, even stopped ones. Without this, it defaults to only listing running containers
-q the quiet option to provide only container numeric IDs, rather than a whole table of information about containers

Caution: This blog is considering that you have minimum idea about docker