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💖 DOCKER(1) — the docker-checkpoint-create girlie manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Docker User Manuals corner where we talk about docker-checkpoint-create, aka the glow-up move where you freeze-frame your running container and keep the picture forever. it's giving screenshot but for an entire process. let's go ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

docker-checkpoint-create — Create a checkpoint from a running container

like literally that's the whole thing. you take a container that's out here living its best life, mid-run, and you make a checkpoint out of it. iconic behavior, no cap 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

docker checkpoint create [OPTIONS] CONTAINER CHECKPOINT

so the order is: the command, then any [OPTIONS] you wanna sprinkle in, then the CONTAINER (which one you're checkpointing), then the CHECKPOINT (what you're naming that lil moment). don't switch them around, she's picky 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Create a checkpoint from a running container.

that's it, that's the vibe. your container is running, you run this, boom — checkpoint created. main character energy for your container state 🌈

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --checkpoint-dir="" — Use a custom checkpoint storage directory. by default it's "" and she picks where it goes herself, but if you're the type of girl who needs her checkpoints in a specific folder, this is your moment. organize your life, queen 👑
• --leave-running[=false] — Leave the container running after checkpoint. default is false, meaning she stops it after checkpointing. set it to true if you want your container to keep going about its business like nothing happened — a true "no thoughts, head empty, still running" situation 💀✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• docker-checkpoint(1) — the bigger picture, the parent vibe, go read her too 🧚

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it, you understood it, you're basically a checkpointing legend now. go forth and freeze-frame responsibly 🍓

— brought to you by the Docker Community, version/date Oct 2026, manual page DOCKER(1) 💖✨🎀