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Keep Docker alive during docker daemon downtime

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Ajay Singh
Aug 17, 2020

When the docker daemon terminates by default it shuts down the running docker containers. From Docker Engine 1.12, you can configure the daemon so that containers remain running even if the daemon becomes unavailable. This functionality is named live restore

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Ajay Singh

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