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?
image:tag exact container versionFollowing 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>
As commented below by kiril, to remove those containers:
stopreturns 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}}"))
image:tag)As Alex Jansen points out in the comments:
The ancestor option does not support wildcard matching.
Alex proposes a solution, but the one I managed to run, when you have multiple containers running from the same image is (in your ~/.bashrc for instance):
dsi() { docker stop $(docker ps -a | awk -v i="^$1.*" '{if($2~i){print$1}}'); }
Then I just call in my bash session (after sourcing ~/.bashrc):
dsi alpine
And any container running from alpine.*:xxx would stop.
Meaning: any image whose name is starting with alpine.
You might need to tweak the awk -v i="^$1.*" if you want ^$1.* to be more precise.
From there, of course:
drmi() { docker rm $(dsi $1 | tr '\n' ' '); }
And a drmi alpine would stop and remove any alpine:xxx container.