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Nuke Docker from Orbit

The article provides a series of commands to completely remove Docker and all its associated data, containers, images, and clusters from a Linux system. It warns that verifying the Docker root directory is dangerous and should not be included in the removal command. The steps include stopping Docker, deleting its data directory, and cleaning up all containers, images, and Kind clusters.

read1 min views23 publishedOct 4, 2021

You can double-check the docker data directory with this, but I considered too dangerous to include in the rm -rf command. docker info | grep 'Docker Root Dir' | grep -oE '/.*' sudo systemctl stop docker sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker sudo systemctl start docker

docker rm -f $(docker ps -aq)
docker rmi -f $(docker images -aq)

docker system prune -af

docker ps -f "status=exited"
docker rm -f $(docker ps -f "status=exited" -q)
kind get clusters | xargs -t -n1 kind delete cluster --name
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