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Aurélie Vache
Aurélie Vache

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Understanding Docker: part 10 – Clean & Purge

Understanding Docker can be difficult or time-consuming. In order to spread knowledge about Cloud technologies I started to create sketchnotes about Docker. I think it could be a good way, more visual, to explain Docker (and other technologies like Kubernetes and Istio).

We continue the series of Docker sketchnotes with a focus about how to clean and purge Docker data.

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If you are interested, I published all the sketchnotes on Docker (and new ones!) to make a "book" of 93 pages: "Understanding Docker in a visual way".

As usual, if you like theses sketchnotes, you can follow me, and tell me what do you think. I will publish others sketchs shortly :-).

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csgeek

Along these lines I think I would also mention "docker system prune". I recently stumbled on that recently and it's a nice catch all for dangling unused containers, volumes and networks.

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Aurélie Vache

Hi,
thanks for your comment.
docker system prune is already written at the end of the sketchnote. It's my favorite command since 3 years.

with -a option you remove everything (included stopped/inactive resources too).

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csgeek

Oops sorry about that must have missed it with all the adorable artwork. Thanks.

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Aurélie Vache

No problem
Thanks for your feedback 🙂
Hope you'll like past and future technical sketchnotes 😊

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