--- title: "rename" description: "The rename command description and usage" keywords: "rename, docker, container" --- <!-- This file is maintained within the docker/docker Github repository at https://github.com/docker/docker/. Make all pull requests against that repo. If you see this file in another repository, consider it read-only there, as it will periodically be overwritten by the definitive file. Pull requests which include edits to this file in other repositories will be rejected. --> # rename ```markdown Usage: docker rename CONTAINER NEW_NAME Rename a container Options: --help Print usage ``` ## Description The `docker rename` command renames a container. ## Examples ```bash $ docker rename my_container my_new_container ```