nself stop

Gracefully shut down all services or specific named services.

Synopsis

nself stop [SERVICES...] [flags]
nself down [SERVICES...] [flags]

Alias: down

Description

nself stop shuts down the ɳSelf stack gracefully. By default it sends SIGTERM to running containers and waits for them to exit cleanly before running docker compose down. The graceful shutdown timeout is 30 seconds by default and can be adjusted with --graceful.

You can stop specific services by passing their names as positional arguments. When stopping individual services, only those containers are affected, the rest of the stack remains running.

Data is always preserved. Volumes are only removed when --volumes is explicitly passed (this is destructive and will delete your database and all stored data). When --volumes or --rmi is set, the graceful stop phase is skipped for speed.

Flags

Flag	Default	Description
--graceful	30	Graceful shutdown timeout in seconds
--volumes, -v	false	Remove volumes , WARNING: deletes all data
--rmi	false	Remove Docker images after stopping
--remove-images	false	Alias for --rmi
--remove-orphans	false	Remove orphaned containers
--no-monorepo	false	Disable automatic monorepo backend detection
--verbose	false	Show detailed output
--help, -h	—	Show help

Examples

# Stop all services gracefully
nself stop

# Using the alias
nself down

# Stop only specific services
nself stop postgres redis

# Stop and remove volumes (destroys all data)
nself stop --volumes

# Stop and remove Docker images
nself stop --rmi

# Clean up orphaned containers
nself stop --remove-orphans

# Extended graceful shutdown timeout
nself stop --graceful 60

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