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Building an ELK Stack with Docker Compose

These files can be used to create a generic ELK stack using Docker Compose. This can be helpful for testing, local development, and POC work. Looking for a fast setup and teardown makes Docker perfect for this use case.

Prerequisites

This assumes that you have git and docker desktop or docker engine with docker-compose installed. For this scenario, we will be using Docker Desktop.

How to Remove Images and Containers in Docker

Docker is a software platform that allows you to build, test, and deploy applications quickly. Docker packages software into standardized units called containers that have everything the software needs to run including libraries, system tools, code, and runtime. Using Docker, you can quickly deploy and scale applications into the cloud (or some other environment) and know your code will run.

Inevitably, when working with Docker, you will need to build, destroy, and rebuild images and containers. The commands below can help with cleaning up those resources you no longer need.