How To Stop All Running Docker Containers
The following steps guide you in stopping all the running docker containers at once:
Step 1: Start The Stopped/Paused Containers
- Firstly ensure to have many running containers to understand this concept effectively.
- Begin all the paused containers to running state and try on creating new containers if interested. Use the following command to start all the paused containers at once.
docker start $(docker ps -a -q)
Step 2: Listing All The Docker Containers
- Check all the containersâ status once by running the following command:
docker ps -a
Step 3: Stop All The Docker Containers
- Now Stop the all the running containers with the following command;
docker stop $(docker ps -aq)
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- You can also stop the execution simultaneously through one command by specifying their names or IDs one by one with space separation.
docker stop container1 container2
Step 4: Verify Listing The Running Containers
- As a verification, you can use the following command âdocker psâ. It displays empty that means all the running containers are successfully stopped.
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