How to remove old and unused Docker images

Question

When running Docker for a long time, there are a lot of images in system. How can I remove all unused Docker images at once safety to free up the storage?

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Answer 1

Assuming you have Docker 1.13 or higher you can just use the prune commands. For your question specifically for removing old images, you want the first one.

# Remove unused images
docker image prune

# Remove stopped containers.
docker container prune

# Remove unused volumes
docker volume prune

# Remove unused networks
docker network prune

# Command to run all prunes:
docker system prune

I would recommend not getting used to using the docker system prune command. I reckon users will accidentally remove things they don't mean to. Personally, I'm going to mainly be using the docker image prune and docker container prune commands.