Docker: Add a restart policy to a container that was already created

Question

I see that Docker has added something called restarting policies to handle restart of containers in case of, for instance, reboot.

While this is very useful, I see t

Answer 1

There're two approaches to modify RestartPolicy:

• Find out the container ID, stop the whole docker service, modify /var/lib/docker/containers/CONTAINER_ID/hostconfig.json, set RestartPolicy -> Name to "always", and start docker service.
• docker commit your container as a new image, stop & rm the current container, and start a new container with the image.