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stop The stop command description and usage stop, SIGKILL, SIGTERM

stop

Usage:  docker stop [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [CONTAINER...]

Stop one or more running containers

Options:
      --help       Print usage
  -t, --time int   Seconds to wait for stop before killing it (default 10)

Description

The main process inside the container will receive SIGTERM, and after a grace period, SIGKILL. The first signal can be changed with the STOPSIGNAL instruction in the container's Dockerfile, or the --stop-signal option to docker run.

Examples

$ docker stop my_container