Clean stopped containers & dangling images #docker

Today I learned how to clean stopped containers in Docker. Starting in Docker 1.13 a new prune command has been introduced.

docker container prune

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No one likes dangling images...

To list the numeric ids of dangling images dangling images use the filter with the dangling flag and -q to surpress anything but IDs:

dangling_images=$(docker images -qf dangling=true)

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Then delete the images

docker rmi $dangling_images

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You can add those to a script and run it from time to time to reclaim hard drive space and some sanity.

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