Remove all Docker containers, images, networks and volumes

If you are like me and play around a lot with Docker, you will probably end up with a lot of containers, networks, volumes, and images in your system which you don't need. Here's a quick guide on how to remove these.

By using xargs --no-run-if-empty we can prevent Docker trying to stop containers or remove containers, images, networks, or volumes if there are none to remove.

Individually

Stop all Docker containers and remove / delete them

docker ps -a -q | xargs --no-run-if-empty docker stop
docker ps -a -q | xargs --no-run-if-empty docker rm

Remove / delete all Docker networks

docker network ls -q | xargs --no-run-if-empty docker network rm

Remove / delete all Docker volumes

docker volume ls -q | xargs --no-run-if-empty docker volume rm

Remove / delete all Docker images

docker images -q -a | xargs --no-run-if-empty docker rmi

Bash function to delete all Docker containers, volumes, networks, and images at once

This function will ask for confirmation before deleting the containers, volumes, and networks, and will ask again for the images (as you may want to keep these for development and not have to re-download them).

You could add this to your .bashrc file (eg. nano ~/.bashrc) so you always have it to use. Remember after adding it to the .bashrc file to source it to load in your changes:

. ~/.bashrc

or

source ~/.bashrc

Here's the Bash function:

rmdocker() {
	read -p $'\e[31mAre you sure you want to delete ALL Docker containers, volumes, and networks? [y/n]\e[0m\n' -n 1 -r
	echo -e "\n"
	if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]
	then
		# Stop all containers
		docker ps -a -q | xargs --no-run-if-empty docker stop
		# Delete all containers
		docker ps -a -q | xargs --no-run-if-empty docker rm
		# Delete all networks
		docker network ls -q | xargs --no-run-if-empty docker network rm
		# Delete all volumes
		docker volume ls -q | xargs --no-run-if-empty docker volume rm
		read -p $'\e[31mAre you sure you want to delete ALL Docker images as well? [y/n]\e[0m\n' -n 1 -r
		echo -e "\n"
		if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]
		then
			# Delete all images
			docker images -q -a | xargs --no-run-if-empty docker rmi
		fi
	fi
}