docker start

docker start start one or more stopped containers

• Man page: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/start/

• docker start CONTAINER_NAME
• docker start --help

• docker start $(docker ps -a -q -f status=exited)

• docker inspect -f "{{ .HostConfig.RestartPolicy}}" $(docker ps -a -q)

• docker update --restart=no $(docker container ls -aq)

docker start my-nginx
Error response from daemon: driver failed programming external connectivity on endpoint my-nginx (395445d55007ad8e495498f7d0782a0a2311d2cfb25de0f1871e10bdfb445969): Error starting userland proxy: listen tcp 0.0.0.0:80: 
bind: address already in use
Error: failed to start containers: my-nginx

Related commands

• docker stop
• docker service (swarm mode)
• docker container start
• docker ps -a
• docker run
• docker update
• docker exec
• docker rm
• lxc launch
• podman start

Activities

1. Understand Start configuration behavior and restart policy (docker update)

See also

• docker start, docker start --help