Stopping Docker containers by image name - Ubuntu

Question

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 comma

Answer 1

Stop docker container by image name:

imagename='mydockerimage'
docker stop $(docker ps | awk '{split($2,image,":"); print $1, image[1]}' | awk -v image=$imagename '$2 == image {print $1}')

Stop docker container by image name and tag:

imagename='mydockerimage:latest'
docker stop $(docker ps | awk -v image=$imagename '$2 == image {print $1}')

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If you created the image, you can add a label to it and filter running containers by label

docker ps -q --filter "label=image=$image"

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Unreliable methods

docker ps -a -q  --filter ancestor=

does not always work

docker ps -a -q --filter="name="

filters by container name, not image name

docker ps | grep  | awk '{print $1}'

is problematic since the image name may appear in other columns for other images