How to continue a Docker container which has exited

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Consider   docker run -it centos  bin bash   I pressed Ctrl D to exit it   I want to continue to run this container  but I found I can t   The only method is  docker commit  docker ps -q -l  my image docker run -it my image  bin bash   Am I right  Is there a better method   I m using docker 0 8 0

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Use   docker start   docker ps -a -q --filter  status exited     This will start all containers which are in the exited state   docker exec -it  lt container-id gt   bin bash   This will connect to the particular container

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If you have a named container then it can be started by running  docker container start container name   where container name is name of the container that must be given at the time of creating container  You can replace container name with the container id in case the container is not named  The container ID can be found by running   docker ps -a

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If you want to continue exactly one Docker container with a known name    docker start   docker ps -a -q --filter  name elas

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by name  sudo docker start bob the container   or by Id  sudo docker start aa3f365f0f4e   this restarts stopped container  use -i to attach container s STDIN or instead of -i you can attach to container session  if you run with -it   sudo docker attach bob the container

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Run your container with --privileged flag  docker run -it --privileged

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You can restart an existing container after it exited and your changes are still there   docker start   docker ps -q -l    restart it in the background docker attach  docker ps -q -l    reattach the terminal  amp  stdin

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docker start  docker ps -a   awk   print  1      This will start up all the containers that are in the  Exited  state

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If you want to do it in multiple  easy-to-remember commands    list stopped containers    docker ps -a   copy the name or the container id of the container you want to attach to  and start the container with    docker start -i  lt name id gt   The -i flag tells docker to attach to the container s stdin   If the container wasn t started with an interactive shell to connect to  you need to do this to run a shell   docker start  lt name id gt  docker exec -it  lt name id gt   bin sh   The  bin sh is the shell usually available with alpine-based images

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Follow these steps    Run below command to see that all the container services both running and stopped on  Option -a is given to see that the container stops as well  docker ps -a  Then start the docker container either by container id or container tag names  docker start  lt CONTAINER ID gt  or  lt NAMES gt      Say from the above picture  container id  4b161b302337 So command to be run is  docker start 4b161b302337  One can verify whether the container is running with  docker ps

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These commands will work for any container  not only last exited ones    This way will work even after your system has rebooted   To do so  these commands will use  container id    Steps    List all dockers by using this command and note the container id of the container you want to restart  docker ps -a Start your container using container id  docker start  lt container id gt  Attach and run your container  docker attach  lt container id gt    NOTE  Works on linux

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docker start -a -i  docker ps -q -l    Explanation   docker start start a container  requires name or ID  -a attach to container -i interactive mode docker ps List containers  -q list only container IDs -l list only last created container

[docker] How to continue a Docker container which has exited

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