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Docker Cookbook

You're reading from   Docker Cookbook Over 100 practical and insightful recipes to build distributed applications with Docker

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788626866
Length 352 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Neependra K Khare Neependra K Khare
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Ken Cochrane Ken Cochrane
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Jeeva S. Chelladhurai Jeeva S. Chelladhurai
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction and Installation FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Docker Containers 3. Working with Docker Images 4. Network and Data Management for Containers 5. Docker Use Cases 6. Docker APIs and SDKs 7. Docker Performance 8. Docker Orchestration and Hosting a Platform 9. Docker Security 10. Getting Help and Tips and Tricks 11. Docker on the Cloud 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Removing an image

The docker image rm command lets you remove images from the Docker host. This command can remove one or more images, and you can specify images using one of the following identifiers:

  • The image's short ID.
  • The image's long ID.
  • The image's digest.
  • The image's name along with its tag. If the tag is not specified, then the latest tag is assumed by default.

If the image happens to have more than one tag associated with it, then those tags must be removed before removing the image. Alternatively, you can forcefully remove them using the -f or --force option of the docker image rm command. In such a case, all the tags will also be automatically removed.

Here is the syntax for the docker image rm command:

docker image rm [OPTIONS] IMAGE [IMAGE...]

In this recipe, we will create multiple tags for an image and demonstrate how to remove them.

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