Monitoring Docker

Halting the virtual server

To log out of the virtual server and return to your local machine, you type exit.

You should now see your local machine's terminal prompt; however, the virtual server you booted will still be running in the background happily, using resources, until you either power it down using the following command:

vagrant halt

Terminate the virtual server altogether using vagrant destroy:

vagrant destroy

To check the current status of the virtual server, you can run the following command:

vagrant status

The result of the preceding command is given in the following output:

Either powering the virtual server back on or creating it from ...