I run some containers with the option --restart always.
It works good, so good, that I have now difficulties to stop these containers now :)
I tried :>
Many thanks for those who takes time to respond.
If you use docker directly, Bryan is right sudo docker rm -f container
is enough.
My problem was mainly that I use puppet to deploy docker images and run containers. I use this module and it creates entries in /etc/init for the upstart process manager.
I think, my problem whas that, some kind of incompatibilities between the process manager and docker.
In this situation, to halt a container, simply sudo stop docker-container
.
More informations on managing docker container run can be found on the docker website