What are the possible states for a docker container?

docker states
Olivier de Broqueville picture Olivier de Broqueville · Sep 6, 2015 · Viewed 16.3k times · Source

Are there states other than "running", "paused" and "stopped" or are these the only states available?

Answer

Adrian Mouat picture Adrian Mouat · Sep 6, 2015

No, there are other possible states. The Docker Remote API defines the following states:

  • created A container that has been created (e.g. with docker create) but not started
  • restarting A container that is in the process of being restarted
  • running A currently running container
  • paused A container whose processes have been paused
  • exited A container that ran and completed ("stopped" in other contexts, although a created container is technically also "stopped")
  • dead A container that the daemon tried and failed to stop (usually due to a busy device or resource used by the container)

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