Docker Container and Image Cleanup on Minikube

There are more elegant ways to do this for Docker images and containers with the Docker Daemon 1.25+, but the Docker Daemon on Minikube (at time of writing, 0.25.0) is 1.23, so does not support these commands.

So for now, we can use these two gems from Jim Hoskin’s website to remove untagged images (failed builds mostly) and stopped containers.

Removing untagged images

docker image rm $(docker images | grep “^<none>” | awk “{print $3}”)

Remove all stopped containers

docker container rm $(docker ps -a -q)

Ryan Blunden

I’m Ryan Blunden and during my career as a Developer and Educator, I’ve learned a lot about the development of technical training for organizations, teams, systems and code bases.