is there a way to crash a docker container deliberately?

Question

I'm running a web app as a container and I'm storing the logs generated by this app in a file. But the log file generated by the app is created inside the container file system , So to access these logs when the container crashes I'm using docker volume, so that i have access to log files even if the container crashes.But i want to test if this really works when the container crashes , So any help on how to test would be highly appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

You have two options

1) Stop the container:

docker stop container_name

2) Kill the container

docker kill container_name