Stopping Docker containers by image name - Ubuntu

Question

On Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) I\'m looking for a way to stop a running container and the only information I have is the image name that was used in the Docker run comma

Answer 1

You can use the ps command to take a look at the running containers:

docker ps -a

From there you should see the name of your container along with the container ID that you're looking for. Here's more information about docker ps.

Answer 2

list all containers with info and ID

docker ps

docker stop CONTAINER ID

Answer 3

docker stop $(docker ps -a | grep "zalenium")
docker rm $(docker ps -a | grep "zalenium")

This should be enough.

Answer 4

Stop docker container by image name:

imagename='mydockerimage'
docker stop $(docker ps | awk '{split($2,image,":"); print $1, image[1]}' | awk -v image=$imagename '$2 == image {print $1}')

Stop docker container by image name and tag:

imagename='mydockerimage:latest'
docker stop $(docker ps | awk -v image=$imagename '$2 == image {print $1}')

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If you created the image, you can add a label to it and filter running containers by label

docker ps -q --filter "label=image=$image"

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Unreliable methods

docker ps -a -q  --filter ancestor=<image-name>

does not always work

docker ps -a -q --filter="name=<containerName>"

filters by container name, not image name

docker ps | grep <image-name> | awk '{print $1}'

is problematic since the image name may appear in other columns for other images

Answer 5

Following issue 8959, a good start would be:

docker ps -a -q --filter="name=<containerName>"

Since name refers to the container and not the image name, you would need to use the more recent Docker 1.9 filter ancestor, mentioned in koekiebox's answer.

docker ps -a -q  --filter ancestor=<image-name>

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As commented below by kiril, to remove those containers:

stop returns the containers as well.

So chaining stop and rm will do the job:

docker rm $(docker stop $(docker ps -a -q --filter ancestor=<image-name> --format="{{.ID}}"))

Answer 6

This code will stop all containers with the image centos:6. I couldn't find an easier solution for that.

docker ps | grep centos:6 | awk '{print $1}' | xargs docker stop

Or even shorter:

docker stop $(docker ps -a | grep centos:6 | awk '{print $1}')