podman-container-cleanup(1) General Commands Manual podman-container-cleanup(1)
NAME
podman-container-cleanup - Clean up the container's network and mount-
points
SYNOPSIS
podman container cleanup [options] container [container ...]
DESCRIPTION
podman container cleanup cleans up exited containers by removing all
mountpoints and network configurations from the host. The container name
or ID can be used. The cleanup command does not remove the containers.
Running containers are not cleaned up.
Sometimes container mount points and network stacks can remain if the
podman command was killed or the container ran in daemon mode. This com-
mand is automatically executed when containers are run in daemon mode by
the conmon process when the container exits.
OPTIONS
--all, -a
Clean up all containers.
The default is false.
IMPORTANT: This OPTION does not need a container name or ID as input ar-
gument.
--exec=session
Clean up an exec session for a single container. It can only be speci-
fied if a single container is being cleaned up (conflicts with --all as
such). If --rm is not specified, temporary files for the exec session
are cleaned up; if it is, the exec session is removed from the con-
tainer.
*IMPORTANT: Conflicts with --rmi as the container is not being cleaned
up so the image cannot be removed.*
--latest, -l
Instead of providing the container ID or name, use the last created con-
tainer. The default is false. IMPORTANT: This OPTION is not available
with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding
WSL2) machines. This OPTION does not need a container name or ID as in-
put argument.
--rm
After cleanup, remove the container entirely.
The default is false.
--rmi
After cleanup, remove the image entirely.
The default is false.
EXAMPLES
Clean up the container "mywebserver".
$ podman container cleanup mywebserver
Clean up the containers with the names "mywebserver", "myflaskserver",
"860a4b23".
$ podman container cleanup mywebserver myflaskserver 860a4b23
SEE ALSO
podman(1), podman-container(1), conmon(8)
HISTORY
Jun 2018, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com
⟨mailto:dwalsh@redhat.com⟩
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