{"id":94783,"date":"2023-06-30T23:01:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T23:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/?p=4127257"},"modified":"2023-06-30T23:01:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T23:01:30","slug":"how-to-stop-and-remove-all-docker-containers-with-2-simple-commands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/?p=94783","title":{"rendered":"How to Stop and Remove All Docker Containers with 2 Simple Commands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/how-to-stop-and-remove-all-docker-containers-with-2-simple-commands.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id>\n<p> In this TechRepublic How to Make Tech Work video, Jack Wallen shows how to stop and remove all Docker containers at once with just two simple commands. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p>I cannot tell you how many times I\u2019ve had way too many Docker containers running and wanted to just blow them all away and start over. Granted, I wouldn\u2019t do this on a production machine; but if you\u2019re working on a development environment where it doesn\u2019t matter if you kill every running container, then using this nuclear option is a good way to go.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, you might need to deploy a new testing container on a port that some other test container is using. Instead of tracking that container down \u2013 and as long as you don\u2019t need any other container to stay running \u2013 there\u2019s a much easier solution for this. What I\u2019m about to show you does exactly what it sounds like.<\/p>\n<p>The first command will stop all running containers, and the second command deletes them. It works every time. Here\u2019s how you do it.<\/p>\n<p>To stop all of your running Docker containers, issue the command <i>docker stop $(docker ps -a -q)<\/i>. The next command removes all containers, which is <i>docker remove $(docker ps -a -q)<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, there are two commands: <i>docker remove<\/i> (or <i>stop)<\/i> and <i>docker ps -a -q<\/i>. The first command uses the output of the second command as a variable, so if you have multiple containers running, it\u2019ll either stop or remove them all at once. This command comes in very handy, though remember to use it wisely. If you have any containers running that must remain up, you\u2019re better off stopping and removing the containers manually.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Subscribe to TechRepublic\u2019s <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCKyMiy1zmJ7aZ8aP6DLZLIA\"><b><i>How To Make Tech Work on YouTube<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i> for all the latest tech advice for business pros from Jack Wallen.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p> <!-- default newsletter at the end --> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this TechRepublic How to Make Tech Work video, Jack Wallen shows how to stop and remove all Docker containers at once with just two simple commands. [embedded content] I cannot tell you how many times I\u2019ve had way too many Docker containers running and wanted to just blow them all away and start over. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,783,315,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-cloudsync","category-containers","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}