Container Groups - Stop

Service:: Container Instances

API Version:: 2025-09-01

Stops all containers in a container group. Compute resources will be deallocated and billing will stop.

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/{containerGroupName}/stop?api-version=2025-09-01

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
containerGroupName	path	True	string	The name of the container group.
resourceGroupName	path	True	string minLength: 1 maxLength: 90	The name of the resource group. The name is case insensitive.
subscriptionId	path	True	string (uuid)	The ID of the target subscription. The value must be an UUID.
api-version	query	True	string minLength: 1	The API version to use for this operation.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
204 No Content		NoContent
Other Status Codes	CloudError	Error response describing why the operation failed.

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name	Description
user_impersonation	Impersonate your user account

Examples

ContainerStop

Sample request

HTTP

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/demo/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/demo1/stop?api-version=2025-09-01

Sample response

Status code:: 204

Definitions

Name	Description
CloudError	An error response from the Container Instance service.
CloudErrorBody	An error response from the Container Instance service.

CloudError

Object

An error response from the Container Instance service.

Name	Type	Description
error	CloudErrorBody	An error response from the Container Instance service.

CloudErrorBody