How to kill process inside container? Docker top command

Question

I have simple example from official guide at docker website.

I run the following:

sudo docker run -d ubuntu:latest /bin/sh -c \"while true; do echo hello         


        

Answer 1

When I reproduce your situation I see different PIDs between docker top and docker exec -it ps -aux. When you do docker exec the command is executed inside the container => should use container's pid. Otherwise you could do the kill without docker straight from the host, in your case: sudo kill -9 25055.