buildah-rmi

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NAME

   buildah-rmi - Removes one or more images.

SYNOPSIS

   buildah rmi [image ...]

DESCRIPTION

   Removes one or more locally stored images.  Passing an argument image deletes it, along with any of its dangling (untagged) parent images.

LIMITATIONS

          • If the image was pushed to a directory path using the 'dir:' transport, the rmi command can not remove the image. Instead, standard file system com‐
            mands should be used.

          • If imageID is a name, but does not include a registry name, buildah will attempt to find and remove the named image using the registry  name  local‐
            host, if no such image is found, it will search for the intended image by attempting to expand the given name using the names of registries provided
            in the system's registries configuration file, registries.conf.

          • If the imageID refers to a manifest list or image index, this command will not do what you expect!  This command will remove the  images  associated
            with the manifest list or index (not the manifest list/image index itself). To remove that, use the buildah manifest rm subcommand instead.

OPTIONS

   --all, -a

   All  local  images  will be removed from the system that do not have containers using the image as a reference image.  An image name or id cannot be provided
   when this option is used. Read/Only images configured by modifying the "additionalimagestores" in the /etc/containers/storage.conf file, can not be removed.

   --force, -f

   This option will cause Buildah to remove all containers that are using the image before removing the image from the system.

   --prune, -p

   All local images will be removed from the system that do not have a tag and do not have a child image pointing to them.  An image name or id cannot  be  pro‐
   vided when this option is used.

EXAMPLE

   buildah rmi imageID

   buildah rmi --all

   buildah rmi --all --force

   buildah rmi --prune

   buildah rmi --force imageID

   buildah rmi imageID1 imageID2 imageID3

Files

   registries.conf (/etc/containers/registries.conf)

   registries.conf  is  the configuration file which specifies which container registries should be consulted when completing image names which do not include a
   registry or domain portion.

   storage.conf (/etc/containers/storage.conf)

   storage.conf is the storage configuration file for all tools using containers/storage

   The storage configuration file specifies all of the available container storage options for tools using shared container storage.