Killing a process inside a docker container

SIGINT.md

Testing graceful shutdown of a docker container process

• In order to log into a specific container in a bash shell you have to run following command

docker exec -ti <container id|name> bash

• The above command will take u to the bash shell, now inside the bash shell search of the command which is running your application, for example, java or node

kill -2 $(pidof node)

• The above command will kill the process node by sending SIGINT