In Docker for Windows How do I stop containers from automatically starting on the daemon start

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Every time my Docker for Windows daemon boots up, it will start a few containers. Even after I kill a container and then reboot the docker daemon, it still appears.

Can someone help me with this?
Sep 3, 2018 in Docker by Sophie may
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I’m not quite sure as to why this happens but maybe those containers have a restart policy which will make Docker to run them everytime they’re not there?

Anyhow, try this:

If youre containers are running, before killing them, try this:

docker update --restart=no container1 container2 ....

Then reboot and see if those containers are still running.

answered Sep 3, 2018 by Sophie may
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Docker will autostart any container with a RestartPolicy of 'always' when the docker service initially starts. You'll have to dig into the container configuration to find it.

docker inspect my-container (Look for RestartPolicy in the output)

I've mostly had this situation occur when a container was created with --restart always, and the situation later changed such that I no longer wanted this to happen.

After docker 1.11, this is easy to fix

docker update --restart=no my-container
answered Aug 14, 2019 by Sirajul
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