moby/docs/reference/commandline/service_rm.md

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Warning: this command is part of the Swarm management feature introduced in Docker 1.12, and might be subject to non backward-compatible changes.

Usage:	docker service rm [OPTIONS] SERVICE [SERVICE...]

Remove one or more services

Aliases:
  rm, remove

Options:
      --help   Print usage

Removes the specified services from the swarm. This command has to be run targeting a manager node.

For example, to remove the redis service:

$ docker service rm redis
redis
$ docker service ls
ID            NAME   SCALE  IMAGE        COMMAND

Warning: Unlike docker rm, this command does not ask for confirmation before removing a running service.

Related information

• service create
• service inspect
• service ls
• service scale
• service ps
• service update