Bash script helper to remove Docker images and containers.

dkcleanup.sh

#!/bin/bash

# options:
# remove stopped containers and untagged images
#   $ dkcleanup 
# remove all stopped|running containers and untagged images
#   $ dkcleanup --reset
# remove containers|images|tags matching {repository|image|repository\image|tag|image:tag}
# pattern and untagged images
#   $ dkcleanup --purge {image}
# everything
#   $ dkcleanup --nuclear

if [ "$1" == "--reset" ]; then
    # Remove all containers regardless of state
    docker rm -vf $(docker ps -a -q) 2>/dev/null || echo "No more containers to remove."
elif [ "$1" == "--purge" ]; then
    # Attempt to remove running containers that are using the images we're trying to purge first.
    (docker rm -vf $(docker ps -a | grep "$2/\|/$2 \| $2 \|:$2\|$2-\|$2:\|$2_" | awk '{print $1}') 2>/dev/null || echo "No containers using the \"$2\" image, continuing purge.") &&\
    # Remove all images matching arg given after "--purge"
    docker rmi $(docker images | grep "$2/\|/$2 \| $2 \|$2 \|$2-\|$2_" | awk '{print $3}') 2>/dev/null || echo "No images matching \"$2\" to purge."
else
    # This alternate only removes "stopped" containers
    docker rm -vf $(docker ps -a | grep "Exited" | awk '{print $1}') 2>/dev/null || echo "No stopped containers to remove."
fi

if [ "$1" == "--nuclear" ]; then
    docker rm -vf $(docker ps -a -q) 2>/dev/null || echo "No more containers to remove."
    docker rmi $(docker images -q) 2>/dev/null || echo "No more images to remove."
else
    # Always remove untagged images
    docker rmi $(docker images | grep "<none>" | awk '{print $3}') 2>/dev/null || echo "No untagged images to delete."
fi

exit 0

Note: If you've tagged the same image multiple times, and are trying to purge it by image ID, then you may need to replace:

# Remove all images matching arg given after "--purge"
docker rmi $(docker images | grep "$2/\|/$2 \| $2 \|$2 \|$2-\|$2_" | awk '{print $3}') 2>/dev/null || echo "No images matching \"$2\" to purge."

with:

# Remove all images matching arg given after "--purge"
docker rmi $(docker images | grep "$2/\|/$2 \| $2 \|$2 \|$2-\|$2_" | awk '{print $1 ":" $2}') 2>/dev/null || echo "No images matching \"$2\" to purge."

That is, docker rmi requires removal of the multiple tags before the image itself can be removed.

(Same thing might apply elsewhere in the script, this is just the only path I've been using so far.)

You can try out below script, i am using that below

#!/bin/bash

timestamp=$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)
log_path="`pwd`"
filename=docker_cleanup_$timestamp.log
log=$log_path/$filename


docker_space_before(){
CURRENTSPACE=`docker system df`
echo "Current Docker Space:" >> $log
echo $CURRENTSPACE >>$log
}
docker_find (){
echo "#####################################################################" >> $log
echo "Finding images" >> $log
echo "#####################################################################" >> $log
REMOVEIMAGES=`docker images | grep " [days|months|weeks]* ago" | awk '{print $3}'`

echo "Listing images that needs to be cleaned up" >> $log
echo $REMOVEIMAGES >>$log

}

docker_cleanup(){
echo "#####################################################################" >> $log
echo "Cleaning images" >> $log
echo "#####################################################################" >> $log
docker rmi ${REMOVEIMAGES}
}

docker_space_after(){
CURRENTSPACE=`docker system df`
echo "Current Docker Space, after clean up:" >> $log
echo $CURRENTSPACE >>$log
}
docker_space_before
docker_find
docker_cleanup
docker_space_after

Thanks for this.