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How to Remove Old and Unused Docker Images ?


In this post, we will see How to Clean-up and Remove Docker Images. With prolonged usage of running Docker, it leaves a lot of images in system. It is advisable to keep a housekeeping practice of cleaning up and removing the unused Docker images. Use the below options to cleanup and remove unnecessary Docker images in the system.  

Option 1 : Remove Docker Images Created Some Days Ago

  • Remove images created more than 2 Days ago -

docker container prune --filter "until=48h"

docker image prune -a --filter "until=48h"

Option 2 : Remove All Unused Docker Images

Removing all unused images - this will remove all images without at least one existing container associated to them.


 docker image prune -a

Option 3 : Remove Multiple Docker Images

  • List all the images

docker images -a

docker images

docker image ls
  • Remove multiple images at once using the image ids from the above list.

docker rmi <image-id1> <image-id2> <image-id3>

Option 4 : Remove Single Docker Image

  • List all the images

docker images -a 

docker images

docker image ls
  • Removes images using their id.

docker rmi <image-id>

Option 5 : Remove Multiple Docker Images using Id

  • If you want to remove all images in a single shot use the below process. We use the nested command as shown. The command within bracket returns list of image ids and these are used by the outside command to delete the images.

docker rmi $(docker images -q)

Option 6 : Remove Dangling Volumes

If you would like to inspect the images with containers that are non-existing but still associated with dangling volumes, then use the below steps -

  • Find out the dangling volumes

docker volume ls -qf dangling=true
  • Delete dangling volumes from the docker root dir

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

Option 7 : Remove Dangling Docker Images

An image which is not tagged or use by any container is a Dangling image.


docker image prune
  • Next select Y from Y\N
 

Option 8 : Remove All Docker Images

BE CAREFUL ABOUT THIS COMMAND. This process deletes ALL the unused Docker Objects e.g.

  • all stopped containers
  • all networks not used by at least one container
  • all dangling images
  • all build cache

docker system prune
  • To force and bypass the warning prompts -

docker system prune -f
  • To remove ALL the unused images -

docker system prune -a

Option 9 : Miscellaneous Options

You can combine "docker xxx prune" with the "--filter" option and choose the limits with regards to the extent of removing images.

  •  To remove containers, images created before any given timestamp, add the below option to the docker command -

until (<timestamp>)
  • To remove containers, images with specified labels.

label (label=<key>, label=<key>=<value>, label!=<key>, or label!=<key>=<value>)
Hope this helps.    

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