How to list docker containers which are running?
There is a restart policy associated with every docker container. The first step is to list all the docker containers. You can do that as follows:
docker container lsYou should then get an output as follows:
How to check restart policy of docker containers?
You can do that with docker inspect <insert docker container id here>. Which means for example for our example you would do something like this:
docker inspect bea070eba948You will get all information about that docker container which can be overwhelming:
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{
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"Created": "2022-08-26T09:32:04.874209501Z",
"Path": "/opt/eventstore/eventstored",
"Args": [],
"State": {
"Status": "running",
"Running": true,
"Paused": false,
"Restarting": false,
"OOMKilled": false,
"Dead": false,
"Pid": 11241,
"ExitCode": 0,
"Error": "",
"StartedAt": "2022-09-01T13:32:09.695694777Z",
"FinishedAt": "2022-09-01T13:29:22.540111592Z",
"Health": {
"Status": "healthy",
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"Log": [
{
"Start": "2022-09-01T13:34:30.122485175Z",
"End": "2022-09-01T13:34:30.263994865Z",
"ExitCode": 0,
"Output": " % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current\n Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed\n\r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0\r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0\n"
},
{
"Start": "2022-09-01T13:34:35.275063904Z",
"End": "2022-09-01T13:34:35.404368252Z",
"ExitCode": 0,
"Output": " % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current\n Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed\n\r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0\r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0\n"
},
{
"Start": "2022-09-01T13:34:40.415449945Z",
"End": "2022-09-01T13:34:40.550987054Z",
"ExitCode": 0,
"Output": " % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current\n Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed\n\r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0\r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0\n"
},
{
"Start": "2022-09-01T13:34:45.562356473Z",
"End": "2022-09-01T13:34:45.681111038Z",
"ExitCode": 0,
"Output": " % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current\n Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed\n\r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0\r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0\n"
},
{
"Start": "2022-09-01T13:34:50.689468456Z",
"End": "2022-09-01T13:34:50.832617546Z",
"ExitCode": 0,
"Output": " % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current\n Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed\n\r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0\r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0\n"
}
]
}
},
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},
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{
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}
],
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{
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}
]
},
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},
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"/proc/acpi",
"/proc/kcore",
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"/proc/latency_stats",
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"/proc/timer_stats",
"/proc/sched_debug",
"/proc/scsi",
"/sys/firmware"
],
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"/proc/bus",
"/proc/fs",
"/proc/irq",
"/proc/sys",
"/proc/sysrq-trigger"
]
},
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},
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},
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"Destination": "/certs",
"Mode": "rw",
"RW": true,
"Propagation": "rprivate"
},
{
"Type": "volume",
"Name": "9fb2d7769d37a33f1c7f530c37c9dcfb689a8c6eba580be3301eb5cd90faebe2",
"Source": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/9fb2d7769d37a33f1c7f530c37c9dcfb689a8c6eba580be3301eb5cd90faebe2/_data",
"Destination": "/var/lib/eventstore",
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{
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"Source": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/a436d2ec32204411ecba492b1a5b73b610c51e427de0c5c6e849e4f98b1f6307/_data",
"Destination": "/var/log/eventstore",
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"Config": {
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"Domainname": "",
"User": "eventstore",
"AttachStdin": false,
"AttachStdout": false,
"AttachStderr": false,
"ExposedPorts": {
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"2112/tcp": {},
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},
"Tty": false,
"OpenStdin": false,
"StdinOnce": false,
"Env": [
"EVENTSTORE_CLUSTER_SIZE=3",
"EVENTSTORE_RUN_PROJECTIONS=All",
"EVENTSTORE_DISCOVER_VIA_DNS=false",
"EVENTSTORE_ENABLE_EXTERNAL_TCP=True",
"EVENTSTORE_ENABLE_ATOM_PUB_OVER_HTTP=true",
"EVENTSTORE_ADVERTISE_HOST_TO_CLIENT_AS=127.0.0.1",
"EVENTSTORE_INT_IP=172.30.240.11",
"EVENTSTORE_ADVERTISE_HTTP_PORT_TO_CLIENT_AS=2111",
"EVENTSTORE_ADVERTISE_TCP_PORT_TO_CLIENT_AS=1111",
"EVENTSTORE_GOSSIP_SEED=172.30.240.12:2113,172.30.240.13:2113",
"EVENTSTORE_TRUSTED_ROOT_CERTIFICATES_PATH=/certs/ca",
"EVENTSTORE_CERTIFICATE_FILE=/certs/node1/node.crt",
"EVENTSTORE_CERTIFICATE_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE=/certs/node1/node.key",
"EVENTSTORE_DISABLE_EXTERNAL_TCP_TLS=True",
"affinity:container==506d32118bcd78c495c26e138bd47f8c2a7a09322cc9a24d0ed2419813f8b390",
"PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin",
"ASPNETCORE_URLS=http://+:80",
"DOTNET_RUNNING_IN_CONTAINER=true",
"LANGUAGE=en_US:en",
"DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive",
"ACCEPT_EULA=Y"
],
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],
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"Timeout": 5000000000,
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},
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"Volumes": {
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},
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],
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{
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}
],
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{
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}
]
},
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},
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"bea070eba948",
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],
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}
}
}
}
]This is a lot of information and we are not interested in that. The information provided is in JSON if ever you are need to parse it programmatically this will come in handy. For our case I would just paste it somewhere and search for “RestartPolicy”. This is what it likely looks like:
"RestartPolicy": {
"Name": "always",
"MaximumRetryCount": 0
}The above shows that it will always restart and we need to change that.
How to update docker container restart policy?
That is easy you need to run docker update –restart=no <insert container id here> which in our case becomes:
docker update --restart=no bea070eba948Then if you inspect the container again you should see the following:
"RestartPolicy": {
"Name": "no",
"MaximumRetryCount": 0
},The policy has now been updated from Always to no.
