What are the possible states of the docker container?

Question

Are there any conditions other than running, paused, and stopped, or are these the only available states?

Answer 1

No, other possible conditions are possible. The Docker Remote API defines the following states:

• created A container that was created (e.g. with docker create ) but not started
• restarting A container that is in the process of restarting
• running Current container
• paused Container whose processes are paused
• exited A container that is started and completed (“stopped” in other contexts, although the created container is technically also “stopped”)
• dead container that the daemon tried and could not stop (usually due to a loaded device or resource used by the container).

Answer 2

Docker Remote API 1.24 defines another state

• is dead