There are times when you might want to stop then restart a container; for example, to recycle a hung container, force a container to reprovision itself, or to reclaim CPU cycles.
To stop a container:
If necessary, in Fabric Explorer, expand the tree of the fabric whose container you want to stop.
Select the container and right-click it to open the context menu.
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To check whether the developer tools stopped the container, click
Containers in Fabric
Explorer, and open the Properties view.
You should see something similar to Figure 20, where |
For information on the meaning of the status indicators that might appear in the Status column of the Properties view, see Table 1, “Container startup status”.