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How do I stop Docker container from restarting?
use sudo docker update –restart=no to update –restart flag of the container. Now you can stop the container. You should be able to just use docker stop and then docker rm to make sure the container doesn’t restart when the daemon restarts.
How do I restart a docker container?
Use a restart policy
- $ docker run -d –restart unless-stopped redis. This command changes the restart policy for an already running container named redis .
- $ docker update –restart unless-stopped redis.
- $ docker update –restart unless-stopped $(docker ps -q)
Is it possible for a container to restart by itself?
If you’re application is able to detect issues, you can easily have the container restart itself. The two important things are the –restart flag and that the application exists when it detects an issue. With the restart policy, you control what Docker does when the command exists.
Why does my docker container stop?
Your container immediately stops unless the commands keep running in foreground. Docker requires your command to keep running in the foreground. Otherwise, it thinks that your applications stops and shutdown the container. The problem is that some application does not run in the foreground.
What causes a container to exit with code 137?
Error 137 in Docker denotes that the container was ‘KILL’ed by ‘oom-killer’ (Out of Memory). This happens when there isn’t enough memory in the container for running the process. When the MySQL process running in the container exceeded its memory usage, OOM-killer killed the container and it exited with code 137.
Can you restart Docker with command / bin / bash?
Restarting a container that run with command /bin/bash , it will run again the same command when restarting. You normally can’t change the command to RUN when restarting an existing container; to do it you can try some tricks as suggested at How to start a stopped docker container with a different command.
How to run a fresh container in Docker?
You can also run a fresh container in the foreground with docker run -ti to see what that does. You may need to map some config from your docker-compose yml to the docker command.
What to do when Docker does not start up?
There you can change the args from e. g. “nodejs app.js” to “/bin/bash”. Now restart the docker service and start the container (you should see that it now correctly starts up). You should use to make sure it does not quit straight away.
How to restart container using Container-ID…?
Remind that when you restart a container it executes again its original command. So if you would able to restart the container of your use case (but you dont’t) it would run again /bin/bash -c “cat /tmp/cool-file” Restarting a container that run with command /bin/bash, it will run again the same command when restarting.