Command for restarting all running docker containers?

Question

How to restart all running docker containers? Mainly looking for a shortcut instead of doing

docker restart containerid1 containerid2

Answer 1

Just run

docker restart $(docker ps -q)

Update

For restarting ALL ( stopped and running ) containers use docker restart $(docker ps -a -q) as in answer lower.

Answer 2

For me its now:

docker restart $(docker ps -a -q)

Answer 3

If you have docker-compose , all you need to do is:

docker-compose restart 

And you get nice print out of the container's name along with its status of the restart (done/error)

Here is the official guide for installing: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

Answer 4

To start only stopped containers:

docker start $(docker ps -a -q -f status=exited)

(On windows it works in Powershell).

Answer 5

To start all the containers:

  docker restart $(docker ps -a -q)

Use sudo if you don't have permission to perform this:

sudo docker restart $(sudo docker ps -a -q)

Answer 6

To start multiple containers with the only particular container ids $ docker restart container-id1 container-id2 container-id3...

Answer 7

To restart all the online docker containers

docker restart $(docker ps -a -q -f status=healthy)

To start all the stopped containers:

docker start $(docker ps -a -q -f status=exited)

Other status options can be:

created , restarting , running , removing , paused , exited , dead .

Answer 8

How to restart all running docker containers? Mainly looking for a shortcut instead of doing

docker restart containerid1 containerid2