Stop docker containers with name matching a pattern

Question

I'm using puckel/docker-airflow with CeleryExecutor. It launches a total of 5 containers named like this

docker-airflow_flower_1_de2035f778e6
docker-airflow_redis_1_49d2e710e82b
..

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While development, I often have to stop all above containers. However, I can't do a docker stop $(docker ps -aq) since I have other containers running on my machine too.

Is there a way to stop all containers who's names match a given pattern (for instance all containers who's names start with docker-airflow in above)?

Answer 1

From this article by @james-coyle, following command works for me

docker ps --filter name=docker-airflow* --filter status=running -aq | xargs docker stop

I believe docker CLI natively does not provide such a functionality, so we have to rely on filtering and good-old bash PIPE and xargs

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UPDATE-1

Note that depending on your environment, you might have to do these

• run docker commands with sudo (just prefix both docker .. commands above with sudo)
• enclose name pattern in double-quotes --filter name="docker-airflow*" (particularly on zsh)

Answer 2

Better late than never ;). From this article. The following works for me:

Stop containers with names matching a given pattern:

$ docker container stop $(docker container ls -q --filter name=<pattern>)

On the other hand, if we want to start containers with names matching a given pattern:

$ docker container start $(docker container ls --all -q --filter name=<pattern>)

NOTE: For different environments related tips, @y2k-shubham's update is a good starting point.

Answer 3

Another approach using grep and docker ps:

To stop docker container matching the given pattern/list of pattern":

docker ps | grep  -E "name_1|name_2|name_3"  |  awk '{print $1}' | xargs docker stop

To stop docker container excluding the given pattern/list of pattern:

docker ps | grep  -Ev "name_1|name_2|name_3" |  awk '{print $1}' | xargs docker stop

Reference: Grep