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Docker for Mac has a neat little 'restart' button in the dropdown from the whale icon in the menu bar.
I'd like to be able to restart Docker for Mac from the terminal, though. What command would I need to run?
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To do this, you must restart the docker service. If you edit the /etc/sysconfig/docker configuration file while the docker service is running, you must restart the service to make the changes take effect.
Docker provides restart policies to control whether your containers start automatically when they exit, or when Docker restarts. Restart policies ensure that linked containers are started in the correct order. Docker recommends that you use restart policies, and avoid using process managers to start containers.
Specifically for Docker for Mac, because it's a "GUI" app, there's a workaround:
osascript -e 'quit app "Docker"'
Since you'd want to restart, here's the way to open it from the command line:
open -a Docker
There's probably a more symmetrical command to open using osascript, but the open command seems more common than the osascript one.
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The following command worked for me:
killall Docker && open /Applications/Docker.app Docker takes a while to initialize.
osascript -e 'quit app "Docker"'; open -a Docker ; while [ -z "$(docker info 2> /dev/null )" ]; do printf "."; sleep 1; done; echo ""
Looks like there is no way to perform this.
I found an official answer for the same question in:
https://forums.docker.com/t/restart-docker-from-command-line/9420/2
Hope they include this feature soon.
Regards
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