CLI Machines Docker Pause

`ed machines docker pause`

Freezes a container's processes without stopping it.

ed machines docker pause [--json] <machine> <container>...

Arguments

Name	Type / values	Default	What it does
`<machine>`	machine name, ssh alias, id, or any unambiguous prefix	required	Which machine to act on.
`<container>...`	one or more container names or ids	at least one required	Which containers to freeze. Docker is given all of them in one call.

Options

Name	Type / values	Default	What it does
`--json`	flag	off	Emit JSON on stdout instead of the one-line confirmation.
`--help`, `-h`	flag	off	Print the help for this command on stdout and exit 0.

`--json` shape

{
  "action": "pause",
  "containers": [
    "open-webui"
  ],
  "machine": "Asus TUF 7"
}

Examples

ed machines tuf docker pause open-webui
ed machines tuf docker pause open-webui --json

Behaviour notes

Runs docker pause <container> under a 120 second ceiling. The container keeps its memory and its ports; its processes simply stop being scheduled.

A paused container reports state: "paused", which ed machines docker ps counts as not running, so it vanishes from a bare ps and only reappears with --all. Pausing something already paused is an error on docker's side and exits 1.