Stop Docker containers by image name - Ubuntu

Question

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

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

Answer 1

With the release of 8959, a good start would be:

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

Since name refers to the container, not the image name, you will need to use the later ancestor of the Docker 1.9 filter mentioned in koekiebox's answer .

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

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As Cyril commented below to remove these containers:

stop returns containers.

So the stop chain and rm will do their job:

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

Answer 2

The previous answers didn’t work for me, but it worked:

 docker stop $(docker ps -q --filter ancestor=<image-name> ) 

Answer 3

You can start the container by specifying the name of the container:

 docker run -d --name <container-name> <image-name> 

You can use the same image to promote multiple containers, so this is a good way to start a container. Then you can use this container name to stop, attach ... the container:

 docker exec -it <container-name> bash docker stop <container-name> docker rm <container-name> 

Answer 4

This code will stop all containers with centos: 6 image. I could not find a simpler solution for this.

 docker ps | grep centos:6 | awk '{print $1}' | xargs docker stop 

Or even shorter

 docker stop $(docker ps -a | grep centos:6 | awk '{print $1}') 

Answer 5

Two ways to stop container launch:

 1. $docker stop container_ID 2. $docker kill container_ID 

You can start running containers using the following command:

 $docker ps 

The following links for more information:

• https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/stop/
• https://docs.docker.com/v1.8/reference/commandline/kill/

Answer 6

Stop dock container by image name:

 imagename='mydockerimage' docker stop $(docker ps | awk '{split($2,image,":"); print $1, image[1]}' | awk -v image=$imagename '$2 == image {print $1}') 

Stop the docker container by image name and tag:

 imagename='mydockerimage:latest' docker stop $(docker ps | awk -v image=$imagename '$2 == image {print $1}') 

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If you created an image, you can add a label to it and filter the running containers by label

 docker ps -q --filter "label=image=$image" 

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Untrusted methods

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

not always working

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

filters by container name, not image name

 docker ps | grep <image-name> | awk '{print $1}' 

problematic as the image name may appear in other columns for other images

Answer 7

I made /usr/local/bin/docker.stop , which accepts the name of the image (it is assumed that you have only one run).

 docker stop $(docker ps -q -f "name=$1") 

Answer 8

In my case --filter ancestor=<image-name> did not work, so the following command cleared the Docker container for me:

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

Answer 9

For Docker version 18.09.0, I found that the format flag is not needed

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

Answer 10

 docker stop $(docker ps -a | grep "zalenium") docker rm $(docker ps -a | grep "zalenium") 

That should be enough.

Answer 11

I tried to wrap my Docker commands in gulp tasks and realized that you can do the following:

 docker stop container-name docker rm container-name 

This may not work for scenarios in which you have multiple containers with the same name (if possible), but for my use case this was ideal.

Answer 12

list of all containers with information and identifier

 docker ps docker stop CONTAINER ID 

Answer 13

You can use the ps command to look at working containers:

 docker ps -a 

From there, you should see the name of your container along with the identifier of the container you are looking for. Here is more information about docker ps .