Podman - pruning

So, back in the Docker days, I wrote a basic little script called prune.sh which would ... prune containers that had exited: -

#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "Removing Docker containers that have Exited"
docker rm `docker ps -a|grep Exited|awk '{print $1}'`
echo "Completed"

so wanted to do much the same now I'm into podman

My starting position is that I've got two containers, one recently exited and one running: -

podman ps -a

CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                                                               COMMAND               CREATED         STATUS                     PORTS                   NAMES

413adb675c62  docker.io/library/hello-world:latest                                /hello                37 seconds ago  Exited (0) 38 seconds ago  0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp  hopeful_vaughan

408ce1f9513f  us.icr.io/demo_time/hello_world_nginx_june_2021:latest  nginx -g daemon o...  32 seconds ago  Up 32 seconds ago          0.0.0.0:8443->443/tcp   zealous_brattain

so I want to remove them both.

Now obviously I don't want to be bother typing in the container ID or name, so lets just get a list of the IDs: -

podman ps -a | grep -v CONTAINER | awk '{print $1}'

413adb675c62

408ce1f9513f

and then use that in a loop to remove the unwanted containers: -

for i in $(podman ps -a | grep -v CONTAINER | awk '{print $1}'); do podman rm $i; done

413adb675c62

Error: cannot remove container 408ce1f9513f8056497d9e6353dd9b210c59d38eafe30c698f202ba6f240babe as it is running - running or paused containers cannot be removed without force: container state improper

so that's a 50% success.

Perhaps I need to add in a podman stop before the podman rm like this: -

podman ps -a

CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                                                               COMMAND               CREATED             STATUS                         PORTS                   NAMES

408ce1f9513f  us.icr.io/demo_time/hello_world_nginx_june_2021:latest  nginx -g daemon o...  7 minutes ago       Exited (0) 49 seconds ago      0.0.0.0:8443->443/tcp   zealous_brattain

43a6797e1036  docker.io/library/hello-world:latest                                /hello                About a minute ago  Exited (0) About a minute ago  0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp  hopeful_robinson

for i in $(podman ps -a | grep -v CONTAINER | awk '{print $1}'); do podman stop $i && podman rm $i; done

408ce1f9513f

408ce1f9513f

43a6797e1036

43a6797e1036

podman ps -a

CONTAINER ID  IMAGE       COMMAND     CREATED     STATUS      PORTS       NAMES

I can do much the same for the images, if I want my prune to be really really ruthless: -

for i in $(podman images | grep -v REPOSITORY | awk '{print $1}'); do podman rmi $i; done

Untagged: docker.io/library/hello-world:latest

Deleted: feb5d9fea6a5e9606aa995e879d862b825965ba48de054caab5ef356dc6b3412

Untagged: us.icr.io/demo_time/hello_world_nginx_june_2021:latest

Deleted: c5318a40be88ede4e70c8c11f552a765c1c8aa5965ebd428da0b4766c2546968

So here's my final script: -

#!/usr/bin/env bash

echo "Removing containers"

for i in $(podman ps -a | grep -v CONTAINER | awk '{print $1}'); do podman stop $i && podman rm $i; done

echo "Removing images"

for i in $(podman images | grep -v REPOSITORY | awk '{print $1}'); do podman rmi $i; done

echo "Done"

~/prune.sh

 

Removing containers

854a1937c347

854a1937c347

ERRO[12181] accept tcp [::]:8443: use of closed network connection 

95ef5827777e

95ef5827777e

Removing images

Untagged: docker.io/library/hello-world:latest

Deleted: feb5d9fea6a5e9606aa995e879d862b825965ba48de054caab5ef356dc6b3412

Untagged: us.icr.io/demo_time/hello_world_nginx_june_2021:latest

Deleted: c5318a40be88ede4e70c8c11f552a765c1c8aa5965ebd428da0b4766c2546968

Done

podman ps -a

CONTAINER ID  IMAGE       COMMAND     CREATED     STATUS      PORTS       NAMES

podman images

REPOSITORY  TAG         IMAGE ID    CREATED     SIZE