What is the preferred way of removing containers – ‘docker rm -f’ or ‘docker stop’ then followed by a ‘docker rm’?

The best and the preferred way of removing containers from Docker is to use the docker stop, as it will allow sending a SIG_HUP signal to its recipients giving them the time that is required to perform all the finalization and cleanup tasks. Once this activity is completed, we can then comfortably remove the container using the docker rm command from Docker and thereby updating the docker registry as well.