Change:
// Remove unidentified containers. for _, container := range unidentifiedContainers { glog.Infof("Removing unidentified dead container %q with ID %q", container.name, container.id) <del> err = cgc.dockerClient.RemoveContainer(docker.RemoveContainerOptions{ID: container.id}) </del> <ins> err = cgc.dockerClient.RemoveContainer(docker.RemoveContainerOptions{ID: container.id, RemoveVolumes: true}) </ins> if err != nil { glog.Warningf("Failed to remove unidentified dead container %q: %v", container.name, err) }

Discussion:
I'm conducting PoC about distributed build using Kubernetes. Jenkins master distribute jenkins slave pods through Kubernetes API Server. When build is done, jenkins slave pod is also deleted by kubernetes API Server. But, kubernetes didn't delete container. (Pod is deleted well) After searching, I found kubelet’s containerGC option. So, I adjusted below options to kubelet. --minimum-container-ttl-duration=0s --maximum-dead-containers=0 After adjusting both 2 options, container was deleted, too. But, kubernetes containerGC didn’t delete host volume path. (/var/lib/docker/vfs/dir/..) Due to aufs’s low performance, I used data volume of host instead of container inside. So, data volume was accumulated and host's inodes was fulled, too. Is there any solution to clean the containers wreckage? My environment was.. Docker: v1.6.2 Kubernetes: v0.18.2 (container based multi clustering)
are you using the host volumes you created yourself? If this is the case, kubelet does not clean the volumes since they are external to kubelet. If not, kubelet should clean the volumes before container GC kicks in.
No.. volumes were created by kubenetes API server. LGTM. Will it be adjusted next release?
You said "I used data volume of host instead of container inside" which says you used a hostPath mount - correct? That is explicitly NOT managed by kubernetes - you've gone to the host, you get to manage it. But you also said "Due to aufs’s low performance" - an emptyDir volume is NOT stored on aufs, but it IS managed with the pod. , gghonor wrote:
The issue as i understand it is dangling volumes, that is volumes that are created via a VOLUME directive in Dockerfile with no corresponding kubernetes volume in spec which therefore has no host path & is not cleaned up by the kubelet. These volumes reside in /var/lib/docker/vfs/. This waste of disk space has the potential to cause out of space errors on the node & therefore make the node unstable.
As the volume dir you mentioned is I assume you didn't specify any volume in your Kubernetes pod spec but did use the directive in your Dockerfile?

As mentions I guess this isn't a Kubernetes managed volume as that would be in the Kubernetes volume dir, right? That dir is used by Docker for volumes specified in Dockerfiles or a docker container that is run with with no specified host path. The latter doesn't happen with Kubernetes managed containers AFAIK.
This makes sense. Thanks for the explanation :) I see the point of removing the dangling volumes. Even though kubelet doesn't manage those volumes, it doesn't hurt to remove them.
Do we have a full understanding of their lifetime, though? We don't control them, I don't see how we can know when to delete them. Docker's volume implementation is just too under-defined to actually be useful. , Yu-Ju Hong wrote: