Kill a running process like a webserver inside a Docker container without killing the container

Question

i want to kill a running process like a Django webserver inside a Docker container without killing the container itself but for some reason if i do docker exec -it <container> ps -aux and then docker exec <container> kill <pid> it will kill my docker instance and i don't want that.

How can i address this issue?

Answer 1

you can go: docker exec -it <container> bash once inside the container you can then kill <pid>. This will kill the process but keep the container running unless this is the process the container was started with.