compose/docs/reference/compose_rm.md

docker compose rm

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

Name	Type	Default	Description
--dry-run	bool		Execute command in dry run mode
-f, --force	bool		Don't ask to confirm removal
-s, --stop	bool		Stop the containers, if required, before removing
-v, --volumes	bool		Remove any anonymous volumes attached to containers

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