Docker - kill container

In this short article we would like to show how to kill docker container.

Quick solution (run following command):

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docker kill put_container_id_here

It is important to know container id to stop proper container. This section shows how to find that id and use it to kill container.

Simple steps:

1. find container id listing all containers with following command:
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   docker ps
   Output:
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   CONTAINER ID     IMAGE                                                           COMMAND                   CREATED             STATUS                     PORTS                                      NAMES

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   4f2135f4f315     408729922323.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/backend:master     "/docker-entrypoint.…"    22 minutes ago      Up 22 minutes (healthy)    80/tcp, 443/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp    deploy_backend

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   f43154f5213f     987224932320.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/frontend:master    "/docker-entrypoint.…"    21 minutes ago      Up 21 minutes (healthy)    81/tcp, 443/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8081->8081/tcp    deploy_frontend

   We want to stop container with id equal to 4f2135f4f315 .

2. kill container with following command:
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   docker kill 4f2135f4f315