CLI Machines Docker Rm

`ed machines docker rm`

Removes a container, killing it first.

ed machines docker rm [--json] [--yes] <machine> <container>...

Arguments

Name	Type / values	Default	What it does
`<machine>`	machine name, ssh alias, id, or any unambiguous prefix	required	Which machine to act on.
`<container>...`	one or more container names or ids	at least one required	Which containers to remove. Docker is given all of them in one call.

Options

Name	Type / values	Default	What it does
`--json`	flag	off	Emit JSON on stdout instead of the one-line confirmation.
`--yes`	flag	off	Apply the removal. Without it, print the exact plan.
`--help`, `-h`	flag	off	Print the help for this command on stdout and exit 0.

`--json` shape

{
  "action": "rm",
  "applied": false,
  "changed": false,
  "containers": [
    "open-webui"
  ],
  "machine": "Asus TUF 7",
  "targets": [
    "Asus TUF 7:container:open-webui"
  ]
}

Examples

ed machines tuf docker rm open-webui
ed machines tuf docker rm b556d7fef23e --yes --json

Behaviour notes

The remote command is docker rm -f <container>, so this kills a running container and removes it in one step rather than refusing to touch it. Without --yes, the command prints the resolved machine and every container target, changes nothing, and never opens an SSH connection. The container's writable layer goes with it, and anything the container wrote outside a volume or a bind mount is gone. Named volumes survive, because -v is never passed.

Runs under a 120 second ceiling. Failure exits 1 with docker's stderr as the hint. This is the Docker window's remove button, running the same command.