Three vital commands every Docker magician should know

The biggest pain of manual experimentation with Docker builds is an overwhelming number of containers / images you can generate in a very short period of time. Nothing can replace a well designed and automated Docker build system. However, before you get there, I attach the commands, which I believe will save you a lot of time.

Please bare in mind, these commands should be only used on development systems, as they will irreversibly remove all your data.

Delete all containers:

docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)

Delete all images:

docker rmi $(docker images -q)

Force delete all images (even with linked containers):

docker rmi $(docker images -q) --force

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About the Author

Kamil Tamiola is the founder and the architect of Peptone — The Protein Intelligence Company. You can connect with him on AngelList, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Researchgate.