[docker] Error response from daemon: No such container

% docker start myalpne
Error response from daemon: No such container: myalpne
Error: failed to start containers: myalpne

If you tried to start a docker container and you received an error response from the docker daemon saying No such container, then this could be due to the following reasons,

Reasons for No such container

• You have misspelled the container name or ID
• The container that you are trying to start was removed.
• You may have mistakenly provided the image name instead of container
• Container with the specified name does not really exists.

Fix/Solutions:

Just run docker ps -a command and see what the name of the container is that you are trying to start.

% docker ps -a        
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE     COMMAND   CREATED        STATUS         PORTS     NAMES
cc7aef6c0663   alpine    "sh"      24 hours ago   Up 6 minutes             myalpine