diff --git a/components/mqtt.rst b/components/mqtt.rst
index 8d9030283..753eda26f 100644
--- a/components/mqtt.rst
+++ b/components/mqtt.rst
@@ -145,6 +145,12 @@ retained messages for you:
 
     esphome configuration.yaml clean-mqtt
 
+With Docker:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    docker run --rm -v "${PWD}":/config -it esphome/esphome configuration.yaml clean-mqtt
+
 This will remove all retained messages with the topic
 ``<DISCOVERY_PREFIX>/+/NODE_NAME/#``. If you want to purge on another
 topic, simply add ``--topic <your_topic>`` to the command.