# Handling of the image after installation

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/393129
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [January 10, 2026, 6:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/393129 "2026-01-10T06:29:33Z")
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### Author: ![sniper756](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sniper756/32/545002_2.png) [@sniper756](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sniper756)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2026, 6:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/393129/1 "2026-01-10T06:29:33Z")

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Family, I installed Discourse using Docker deployment.

After every rebuild, a local image is generated in Docker. What are the following images used for? Can they be deleted?

`discourse/base:2.0.20251003-1437`

`discourse/base:2.0.20260109-0020`

Thank you.

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### Author: ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2026, 6:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/393129/2 "2026-01-10T06:35:12Z")

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You can use `./launcher cleanup` to automatically remove whatever is not needed anymore.

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### Author: ![sniper756](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sniper756/32/545002_2.png) [@sniper756](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sniper756)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2026, 6:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/393129/3 "2026-01-10T06:48:11Z")

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Thank you. After running cleanup, only the images currently in use and discourse/base:2.0.20260109-0020 remain as local images.