Stopping Docker containers by image name - Ubuntu

Question

On Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) I'm looking for a way to stop a running container and the only information I have is the image name that was used in the Docker run command.

Is there a command to find all the matching running containers that match that image name and stop them?

Answer 1

In my case --filter ancestor=<image-name> was not working, so the following command cleaned up the Docker container for me:

docker rm $(docker stop $(docker ps -a -q --filter "name=container_name_here" --format="{{.ID}}"))

Answer 2

Following issue 8959, a good start would be:

docker ps -a -q --filter="name=<containerName>"

Since name refers to the container and not the image name, you would need to use the more recent Docker 1.9 filter ancestor, mentioned in koekiebox's answer.

docker ps -a -q  --filter ancestor=<image-name>

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As commented below by kiril, to remove those containers:

stop returns the containers as well.

So chaining stop and rm will do the job:

docker rm $(docker stop $(docker ps -a -q --filter ancestor=<image-name> --format="{{.ID}}"))

Answer 3

I was trying to wrap my Docker commands in gulp tasks and realised that you can do the following:

docker stop container-name
docker rm container-name

This might not work for scenarios where you have multiple containers with the same name (if that's possible), but for my use case it was perfect.

Answer 4

For Docker version 18.09.0 I found that format flag won't be needed

docker rm $(docker stop $(docker ps -a -q -f ancestor=<image-name>))