Docker: How to delete all local Docker images

Question

I recently started using Docker and never realized that I should use docker-compose down instead of ctrl-c or docker-compose stop to get r

Answer 1

Adding to techtabu's accepted answer, If you're using docker on windows, you can use the following command

for /F "delims=" %A in ('docker ps -a -q') do docker rm %A

here, the command docker ps -a -q lists all the images and this list is passed to docker rm one by one

see this for more details on how this type of command format works in windows cmd.

Answer 2

To delete all images:

docker rmi -f $(docker images -a | awk {'print $3'})

Explanation:

docker images -a | awk {'print $3'}

This command will return all image id's and then used to delete image using its id.

Answer 3

Use this to delete everything:

docker system prune -a --volumes

Remove all unused containers, volumes, networks and images

WARNING! This will remove:
    - all stopped containers
    - all networks not used by at least one container
    - all volumes not used by at least one container
    - all images without at least one container associated to them
    - all build cache

https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/system_prune/#extended-description

Answer 4

You can try like this:

docker system prune

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

Delete without invoking docker:

rm -rf /var/lib/docker

This directly removes all docker images/containers/volumes from the filesystem.