Start and Stop Docker Container

When working with Docker containers, it is useful to know how to start, stop, and restart the container via command line manually. This tutorial demonstrates how to do that.

Stop container

The docker stop command, or docker container command with stop argument, can be used to stop a container. The command accepts container name or ID. For example, to stop container named nginx, you can use:

docker stop nginx

docker container stop nginx

Start container

To start a stopped container, use the docker start command, or docker container command with start argument.

docker start nginx

docker container start nginx

Restart container

Docker container can be restarted as follows:

docker restart nginx

docker container restart nginx