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| Description | Force stop service containers | | Usage | docker compose kill [OPTIONS] [SERVICE...] |

Description

Forces running containers to stop by sending a SIGKILL signal. Optionally the signal can be passed, for example:

$ docker compose kill -s SIGINT

Options

Option	Default	Description
--remove-orphans		Remove containers for services not defined in the Compose file
-s, --signal	SIGKILL	SIGNAL to send to the container