Hello everyone,
I have containers that I want to get rid of because I can’t make them work, but I can’t seem to get rid of them. I’m using Portainer usually and the remove command on the container works, but they shortly reappear as newly created containers.
I moved to the terminal to try and sudo it out of existence manually, docker ps, the containers are here. So I sudo docker stop , the terminal confirms. Then sudo rm -f , confirmed again.
Docker ps shows they are gone, but a minute later another docker ps shows they are back up again.
I’ve looked it up online and people mentioned it might be running as a service. The command “docker service ls” returns an empty list.
How can I nuke those containers?
How did you create them?
Are they part of a stack or docker-compose?
are you using kube? or docker-compose?
of you are using docker compose, and in the compose file there is
restart: always
the container will be restarted if it disappears.to remove it do
docker compose down
Solution:
sudo rm -rf /
. Reinstall Debian, never install Docker again. :)