patrickmonte · November 1, 2018 19:06 · Mar 31, 2016
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+# Docker - How to cleanup (unused) resources
+
+Once in a while, you may need to cleanup resources (containers, volumes, images, networks) ...
+
+## delete volumes
+
+    // see: https://github.com/chadoe/docker-cleanup-volumes
+
+    $ docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)
+    $ docker volume ls -qf dangling=true | xargs -r docker volume rm
+
+## delete networks
+
+    $ docker network ls  
+    $ docker network ls | grep "bridge"   
+    $ docker network rm $(docker network ls | grep "bridge" | awk '/ / { print $1 }')
+
+## remove docker images
+
+    // see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32723111/how-to-remove-old-and-unused-docker-images
+
+    $ docker images
+    $ docker rmi $(docker images --filter "dangling=true" -q --no-trunc)
+
+    $ docker images | grep "none"
+    $ docker rmi $(docker images | grep "none" | awk '/ / { print $3 }')
+
+## remove docker containers
+
+    // see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32723111/how-to-remove-old-and-unused-docker-images
+
+    $ docker ps
+    $ docker ps -a
+    $ docker rm $(docker ps -qa --no-trunc --filter "status=exited")
+
+## Resize disk space for docker vm
+
+    $ docker-machine create --driver virtualbox --virtualbox-disk-size "40000" default
+