Viewing output of stopped Docker container

Question

It seems like there's no way to view the screen output of a stopped container (which makes logical sense, since it'd need to be running in order to poll for screen content). However, if you're working in a vacuum with a third-party image, how can you debug a failure to start if you can't access the screen output? Can you stream the screen output to a file?

Answer 1

Did you notice the docker logs command? It will print STDOUT from the container.