# Cursor Chat: ai-agent-book

## Metadata
- **Project**: ai-agent-book
- **Path**: `/Users/boj`
- **Date**: 2025-10-04 18:25:01
- **Session ID**: `9d8fd69d-2a65-43ba-859a-7054a5293ef0`

## Conversation

### 👤 You

how to stop all docker instances on a server

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### 🤖 Cursor Assistant

To stop all Docker containers on a server, you can use these commands:

## Stop all running containers:
```bash
docker stop $(docker ps -q)
```

## If you want to stop and remove all containers:
```bash
# Stop all running containers
docker stop $(docker ps -q)

# Remove all containers (stopped and running)
docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)
```

## Alternative using Docker's built-in options:
```bash
# Stop all containers
docker container stop $(docker container ls -q)

# Remove all stopped containers
docker container prune -f
```

## If you want to stop everything including networks and volumes:
```bash
# Stop all containers and remove containers, networks, volumes, and images
docker compose down -v  # if using docker compose

# Or for a complete cleanup:
docker stop $(docker ps -q)
docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)
docker network prune -f
docker volume prune -f
```

## Quick explanation:
- `docker ps -q` lists all running container IDs
- `docker ps -a -q` lists all container IDs (including stopped ones)
- `-f` flag forces the operation without confirmation prompts
- `docker container prune` removes all stopped containers

**Note:** If there are no running containers, you might see an error like "requires at least 1 argument" - this is normal and can be ignored.

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