User Tools

Site Tools


docker:images:remove_dangling_images

Docker - Images - Remove dangling images

Docker images consist of multiple layers.

Dangling images are layers that have no relationship to any tagged images.

  • They no longer serve a purpose and consume disk space.
  • They can be located by adding the filter flag, -f with a value of dangling=true to the docker images command.
  • When you're sure you want to delete them, you can add the -q flag, then pass their ID to docker rmi:

To list dangling images:

docker images -f dangling=true

To remove dangling images:

docker rmi $(docker images -f dangling=true -q)

or

docker rmi $(docker images --filter "dangling=true" -q --no-trunc)

An alternative to listing dangling images:

docker images | awk '/<none>/ { print $3 }'

docker/images/remove_dangling_images.txt · Last modified: 2022/09/19 14:15 by peter

Donate Powered by PHP Valid HTML5 Valid CSS Driven by DokuWiki