Docker commands to clean unused images

March 29, 2016April 5, 2016

Docker commands to clean unused images

If you use docker for some time, there will be a lot of trash images, volumes that is not used by any containers. Here’s how to remove them. (warning: not reversible)

Remove dangling images

1	docker rmi $(docker images -qf dangling=true)

Remove dangling volumes

1	docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)

As seen from above commands, you may guess the nested command within the $(…) is used to list dangling images/volumes

List dangling images

1	docker images -f dangling=true

List dangling volumes

1	docker volume ls -f dangling=true

March 12, 2016April 5, 2016

Using Dotenv config in Makefile (or anything)

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Make Docker work with iptables

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Docker named volume explained

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