Can’t delete docker image with dependent child images

Question

I am trying

docker rmi c565603bc87f

Error:

Error response from daemon: conflict: unable to delete c565603bc87f (ca

Answer 1

Building on Simon Brady's brute force method here, if you don't have a ton of images you can use this shell function:

recursive_remove_image() {
  for image in $(docker images --quiet --filter "since=${1}")
  do
    if [ $(docker history --quiet ${image} | grep ${1}) ]
    then
      recursive_remove_image "${image}"
    fi
  done
  echo "Removing: ${1}"
  docker rmi -f ${1}
}

and then call it using recursive_remove_image .