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| Description | Removes stopped service containers | | Usage | docker compose rm [OPTIONS] [SERVICE...] |

Description

Removes stopped service containers.

By default, anonymous volumes attached to containers are not removed. You can override this with -v. To list all volumes, use docker volume ls.

Any data which is not in a volume is lost.

Running the command with no options also removes one-off containers created by docker compose run:

$ docker compose rm
Going to remove djangoquickstart_web_run_1
Are you sure? [yN] y
Removing djangoquickstart_web_run_1 ... done

Options

Option	Default	Description
-f, --force		Don't ask to confirm removal
-s, --stop		Stop the containers, if required, before removing
-v, --volumes		Remove any anonymous volumes attached to containers