Container Management

Managing running containers: start, stop, logs, and inspection

Container Management

Scenario: Managing Production Containers

Task: Learn essential container management commands

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🛠️ Essential Commands

Container Lifecycle

# Start/Stop/Restart
docker start mycontainer
docker stop mycontainer
docker restart mycontainer

# Remove container
docker rm mycontainer

# Remove stopped containers
docker container prune

Inspecting Containers

# View logs
docker logs mycontainer
docker logs -f mycontainer  # Follow
docker logs --tail 100 mycontainer

# Inspect details
docker inspect mycontainer

# Execute command in running container
docker exec -it mycontainer /bin/bash

# Check resource usage
docker stats mycontainer

Listing Containers

# Running containers
docker ps

# All containers (including stopped)
docker ps -a

# Format output
docker ps --format "table {{.Names}}\t{{.Status}}\t{{.Ports}}"

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✅ Verification

• Can start/stop containers
• Can view and follow logs
• Can exec into containers
• Can inspect container details

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🎯 Key Learnings

• Container lifecycle management
• Log analysis
• Debugging running containers

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✅ Status

COMPLETED 🎉

• Date: 2026-01-29

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