I run some containers with the option --restart always.
It works good, so good, that I have now difficulties to stop these containers now :)
I tried :
sudo docker stop container && sudo docker rm -f container
But the container still restarts.
The docker documentation explains the restart policies, but I didn't find anything to resolve this issue.
Just
sudo docker rm -f container
will kill the process if it is running and remove the container, in one step.
That said, I couldn't replicate the symptoms you described. If I run with --restart=always, docker stop will stop the process and it remains stopped.
I am using Docker version 1.3.1.
docker update --restart=no <container>
Many thanks for those who takes time to respond.
If you use docker directly, Bryan is right sudo docker rm -f container is enough.
My problem was mainly that I use puppet to deploy docker images and run containers. I use this module and it creates entries in /etc/init for the upstart process manager.
I think, my problem whas that, some kind of incompatibilities between the process manager and docker.
In this situation, to halt a container, simply sudo stop docker-container.
More informations on managing docker container run can be found on the docker website
