Stopping containers and cleanup

Stopping the containers for your project

You may want to recoup the resources used by your projects containers and the docker host for other things if you are done with development for a while. You can stop the containers for a single project only or all containers and the docker host depending on what you are finished using.

If you only want to stop the containers for your project, in the project directory, run docker-compose stop or press Ctrl-C to stop a docker-compose process running in the foreground and then run docker-compose stop to ensure the project containers have stopped.
If you want to shut down the docker host as well as any containers, run devtools stop

Cleaning Up

From time to time you'll want to clean up stopped containers. You'll also want to take special care when finishing a project to release all the resources used by it.

For periodic cleanup of all stopped containers, run the following script while your docker host is running: devtools prune

If you only want to clean up project specific stopped containers, you can run: docker-compose rm from your project directory.

When you are finished with a project, if you used any persistent data storage you'll want to run a command to clean it up. The exact directory to request removal from will depend on your project (see suggested directory naming guidelines in Common Setup): docker ssh dev sudo rm -rf /data/[project]/