docker restart container failed: “already in use”, but there's no more docker image

Question

I first got my nginx docker image:

docker pull nginx

Then I started it:

docker run -d -p 80:80 --name webserver nginx
         


        

Answer 1

As the error says.

You have to remove (or rename) that container to be able to reuse that name

This leaves you two options.

• You may delete the container that is using the name "webserver" using the command

  docker rm 036a0bcd196c5b23431dcd9876cac62082063bf62a492145dd8a55141f4dfd74

and retry.

• Or you may use a different name during the run command. This is not recommended, as you no longer need that docker.

It's better to remove the unwanted docker and reuse the name.