docker-container-stop - Man Page

• Stop a Docker container: docker [stop|container stop] container
• Stop a container, sending a specific signal to it: docker [stop|container stop] [-s|--signal] signal container
• Stop a container, waiting a specific number of seconds before forcibly killing it: docker [stop|container stop] [-t|--timeout] seconds container
• Stop one or more containers: docker [stop|container stop] container1 container2 ...
• Display help: docker [stop|container stop] --help

tldr.sh

docker container stop [Options] CONTAINER [CONTAINER...]

Stop a container (Send SIGTERM, and then SIGKILL after grace period)

-s, --signal="" Signal to send to the container

-t, --timeout=0 Seconds to wait before killing the container

docker-container(1)