Here, we will help you to understand how to remove containers in docker. We use “docker rm container_name” command to remove container.
“docker rm” command can be used with various options to remove containers in docker.
Usage:
docker container rm [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [CONTAINER…]
Options:
| Name | Description | |
--force , -f | Force the removal of a running container (uses SIGKILL) | |
--link , -l | Remove the specified link | |
--volumes , -v | Remove anonymous volumes associated with the container |
Example:
rootMac@ABCD ~ % docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 1486e1dfde13 redis:latest "docker-entrypoint.s…" 30 seconds ago Up 29 seconds 0.0.0.0:55000->6379/tcp redis-AEJ4 9ffc5b61103b docker/getting-started "/docker-entrypoint.…" 37 seconds ago Up 36 seconds 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp beautiful_mccarthy
Delete the redis container (Showing in the above docker ps command)
rootMac@ABCD ~ % docker stop redis-AEJ4 redis-AEJ4 rootMac@ABCD ~ % docker rm redis-AEJ4 redis-AEJ4 rootMac@ABCD ~ % docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 9ffc5b61103b docker/getting-started "/docker-entrypoint.…" 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp beautiful_mccarthy >>>>> Here, redis container is not running. *** Before deleting the container, Make sure It's in stopped state. You can't delete running container.
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