Deleting a Docker image from a registry
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Updated at March 6, 2025
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Deleting a Docker image is a deferred action operation: when you delete a Docker image, its layers are physically removed 1 hour later. Information about the total size of the registry is also updated 1 hour later.
To delete a Docker image from the registry, you need the container-registry.images.pusher role or higher.
Management console
CLI
API
To delete a Docker image:
- Go to the repository to remove the image from:
- Go to the folder page and select Container Registry.
- Open the appropriate registry.
- Open the repository.
- Click the icon next to the Docker image to delete.
- In the menu that opens, click Delete.
- In the window that opens, click Delete.
If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI yet, install and initialize it.
To delete a Docker image, use the image ID. You can retrieve the ID by requesting a list of Docker images in the desired registry.
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Delete the Docker image:
yc container image delete crp9vik7sgec******** -
Make sure the Docker image has been deleted:
yc container image listCommand result:
+----+---------+------+------+-----------------+ | ID | CREATED | NAME | TAGS | COMPRESSED SIZE | +----+---------+------+------+-----------------+ +----+---------+------+------+-----------------+