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Installation on Mac OS X Installation on Windows

Installation on Arch Linux Installation on CRUX Linux Installation on CentOS Installation on Debian Installation on Fedora Installation on FrugalWare Installation on Gentoo Installation on Oracle Linux Installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation on Ubuntu Installation on openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise

Amazon EC2 Installation Install on Joyent Public Cloud Installation on Google Cloud Platform Installation on IBM SoftLayer Installation on Microsoft Azure platform Installation on Rackspace Cloud

Installation from binaries

Kitematic Docker Machine Docker Compose Docker Swarm

The Docker user guide

Best practices for writing Dockerfiles Create a base image Get started with images Get started with Docker Hub

Get started with containers Working with containers Managing data in containers Linking containers together Automatically start containers

PowerShell DSC Usage Resizing a Boot2Docker volume

Kitematic User Guide: Intro & Overview Set up an Nginx web server Set up a Minecraft Server Creating a Local RethinkDB Database for Development Frequently Asked Questions Known Issues

About Docker Apply custom metadata Understand the architecture

Overview of Docker Machine

Overview of Docker Compose Using Compose in production Extending services in Compose Command Completion Quickstart Guide: Compose and Django Quickstart Guide: Compose and Rails Quickstart Guide: Compose and Wordpress

Docker Swarm Create a swarm for development Docker Swarm discovery Docker Swarm filters Docker Swarm strategies

Network configuration Docker security Configuring and running Docker Runtime metrics Protect the Docker daemon socket Link via an ambassador container Control and configure Docker with systemd

Dockerizing a Riak service Dockerizing an SSH service

Process management with CFEngine Using Chef Using Puppet Using Supervisor with Docker

Dockerizing MongoDB Dockerizing PostgreSQL Dockerizing a CouchDB service Dockerizing a Node.js web app Dockerizing a Redis service Dockerizing an apt-cacher-ng service Dockerizing applications: A 'Hello world'

Docker Hub user guide The Docker Hub Accounts on Docker Hub Getting started with Docker Hub Your Repositories on Docker Hub Automated Builds on Docker Hub Official Repositories on Docker Hub

Overview Quick-start: Basic Workflow User guide Admin guide Installation Configuration options Support Release notes Prior release notes archive

Docker Registry 2.0 Understanding the Registry Deploying a registry server Configure a Registry Work with Notifications Authentication for the Registry Getting help

Using certificates for repository client verification Run a local registry mirror

Using the command line daemon attach build commit cp create diff events exec export history images import info inspect kill load login logout logs pause port ps pull push rename restart rm rmi run save search start stats stop tag top unpause version wait

Docker run reference Dockerfile reference Remote API client libraries docker.io accounts API

Docker Hub API Remote API Remote API v1.19 Remote API v1.18 Remote API v1.17 Remote API v1.16 Remote API v1.15 Remote API v1.14

The Docker Hub and the Registry v1

Compose CLI reference docker-compose.yml reference Compose environment variables reference

Docker Machine Reference

Docker Swarm API

Docker Registry HTTP API V2 Docker Registry Storage Driver Docker Registry v2 Authentication

Overview of contributing Where to chat or get help

README first Get the required software Set up for development on Windows Configure Git for contributing Work with a development container Run tests and test documentation

Understand how to contribute Find and claim an issue Work on your issue Create a pull request (PR) Participate in the PR review Advanced contributing Coding style checklist

Contribute code overview Support the community Organize our issues Organize a Docker Meetup Testing contributions

Docker Governance Advisory Board Board member profiles Code of conduct

Style guide for Docker documentation

Docker Release Notes Docker Swarm Release Notes FAQ Docker Glossary

Version 1.6 Version 1.5 Version 1.4

kill

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

Kill a running container using SIGKILL or a specified signal

  -s, --signal="KILL"    Signal to send to the container

The main process inside the container will be sent SIGKILL, or any signal specified with option --signal.

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