podman-ps(1) General Commands Manual podman-ps(1)
NAME
podman-ps - Print out information about containers
SYNOPSIS
podman ps [options]
podman container ps [options]
podman container list [options]
podman container ls [options]
DESCRIPTION
podman ps lists the running containers on the system. Use the --all flag
to view all the containers information. By default it lists:
• container id
• the name of the image the container is using
• the COMMAND the container is executing
• the time the container was created
• the status of the container
• port mappings the container is using
• alternative names for the container
OPTIONS
--all, -a
Show all the containers, default is only running containers.
Note: Podman shares containers storage with other tools such as Buildah
and CRI-O. In some cases these external containers might also exist in
the same storage. Use the --external option to see these external con-
tainers. External containers show the 'storage' status.
--external
Display external containers that are not controlled by Podman but are
stored in containers storage. These external containers are generally
created via other container technology such as Buildah or CRI-O and may
depend on the same container images that Podman is also using. External
containers are denoted with either a 'buildah' or 'storage' in the COM-
MAND and STATUS column of the ps output.
--filter, -f
Filter what containers are shown in the output. Multiple filters can be
given with multiple uses of the --filter flag. Filters with the same
key work inclusive with the only exception being label which is exclu-
sive. Filters with different keys always work exclusive.
Valid filters are listed below:
┌──────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
│ Filter │ Description │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ id │ [ID] Container's ID (CID pre- │
│ │ fix match by default; accepts │
│ │ regex) │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ name │ [Name] Container's name (ac- │
│ │ cepts regex) │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ label │ [Key] or [Key=Value] Label │
│ │ assigned to a container │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ label! │ [Key] or [Key=Value] Label │
│ │ NOT assigned to a container │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ exited │ [Int] Container's exit code │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ status │ [Status] Container's status: │
│ │ 'created', 'initialized', │
│ │ 'exited', 'paused', 'run- │
│ │ ning', 'unknown' │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ ancestor │ [ImageName] Image or descen- │
│ │ dant used to create container │
│ │ (accepts regex) │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ before │ [ID] or [Name] Containers │
│ │ created before this container │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ since │ [ID] or [Name] Containers │
│ │ created since this container │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ volume │ [VolumeName] or [Mountpoint- │
│ │ Destination] Volume mounted │
│ │ in container │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ health │ [Status] healthy or unhealthy │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ pod │ [Pod] name or full or partial │
│ │ ID of pod │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ network │ [Network] name or full ID of │
│ │ network │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ until │ [DateTime] container created │
│ │ before the given duration or │
│ │ time. │
└──────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
--format=format
Pretty-print containers to JSON or using a Go template
Valid placeholders for the Go template are listed below:
┌───────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
│ Placeholder │ Description │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .AutoRemove │ If true, containers are re- │
│ │ moved on exit │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .CIDFile │ Container ID File │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Command │ Quoted command used │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Created ... │ Creation time for container, │
│ │ Y-M-D H:M:S │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .CreatedAt │ Creation time for container │
│ │ (same as above) │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .CreatedHuman │ Creation time, relative │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .ExitCode │ Container exit code │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Exited │ "true" if container has exited │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .ExitedAt │ Time (epoch seconds) that con- │
│ │ tainer exited │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .ExposedPorts ... │ Map of exposed ports on this │
│ │ container │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .ID │ Container ID │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Image │ Image Name/ID │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .ImageID │ Image ID │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .IsInfra │ "true" if infra container │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Label string │ Specified label of the con- │
│ │ tainer │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Labels ... │ All the labels assigned to the │
│ │ container │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Mounts │ Volumes mounted in the con- │
│ │ tainer │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Names │ Name of container │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Networks │ Show all networks connected to │
│ │ the container │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Pid │ Process ID on host system │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Pod │ Pod the container is associ- │
│ │ ated with (SHA) │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .PodName │ PodName of the container │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Ports │ Forwarded and exposed ports │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Restarts │ Display the container restart │
│ │ count │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .RunningFor │ Time elapsed since container │
│ │ was started │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Size │ Size of container │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .StartedAt │ Time (epoch seconds) the con- │
│ │ tainer started │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .State │ Human-friendly description of │
│ │ ctr state │
├───────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Status │ Status of container │
└───────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘
--help, -h
Print usage statement
--last, -n
Print the n last created containers (all states)
--latest, -l
Show the latest container created (all states) (This option is not
available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (ex-
cluding WSL2) machines)
--namespace, --ns
Display namespace information
--no-trunc
Do not truncate the output (default false).
--noheading
Omit the table headings from the listing of containers.
--pod, -p
Display the pods the containers are associated with
--quiet, -q
Print the numeric IDs of the containers only
--size, -s
Display the total file size
--sort=created
Sort by command, created, id, image, names, runningfor, size, or sta-
tus", Note: Choosing size sorts by size of rootFs, not alphabetically
like the rest of the options
--sync
Force a sync of container state with the OCI runtime. In some cases, a
container's state in the runtime can become out of sync with Podman's
state. This updates Podman's state based on what the OCI runtime re-
ports. Forcibly syncing is much slower, but can resolve inconsistent
state issues.
--watch, -w
Refresh the output with current containers on an interval in seconds.
EXAMPLES
List running containers.
$ podman ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
4089df24d4f3 docker.io/library/centos:latest /bin/bash 2 minutes ago Up 2 minutes 0.0.0.0:80->8080/tcp, 0.0.0.0:2000-2006->2000-2006/tcp manyports
92f58933c28c docker.io/library/centos:latest /bin/bash 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes 192.168.99.100:1000-1006->1000-1006/tcp zen_sanderson
List all containers.
$ podman ps -a
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
02f65160e14ca redis:alpine "redis-server" 19 hours ago Exited (-1) 19 hours ago 6379/tcp k8s_podsandbox1-redis_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_0
69ed779d8ef9f redis:alpine "redis-server" 25 hours ago Created 6379/tcp k8s_container1_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_1
List all containers including their size. Note: this can take longer
since Podman needs to calculate the size from the file system.
$ podman ps -a -s
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES SIZE
02f65160e14ca redis:alpine "redis-server" 20 hours ago Exited (-1) 20 hours ago 6379/tcp k8s_podsandbox1-redis_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_0 27.49 MB
69ed779d8ef9f redis:alpine "redis-server" 25 hours ago Created 6379/tcp k8s_container1_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_1 27.49 MB
List all containers, running or not, using a custom Go format.
$ podman ps -a --format "{{.ID}} {{.Image}} {{.Labels}} {{.Mounts}}"
02f65160e14ca redis:alpine tier=backend proc,tmpfs,devpts,shm,mqueue,sysfs,cgroup,/var/run/,/var/run/
69ed779d8ef9f redis:alpine batch=no,type=small proc,tmpfs,devpts,shm,mqueue,sysfs,cgroup,/var/run/,/var/run/
List all containers and display their namespaces.
$ podman ps --ns -a
CONTAINER ID NAMES PID CGROUP IPC MNT NET PIDNS USER UTS
3557d882a82e3 k8s_container2_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_1 29910 4026531835 4026532585 4026532593 4026532508 4026532595 4026531837 4026532594
09564cdae0bec k8s_container1_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_1 29851 4026531835 4026532585 4026532590 4026532508 4026532592 4026531837 4026532591
a31ebbee9cee7 k8s_podsandbox1-redis_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_0 29717 4026531835 4026532585 4026532587 4026532508 4026532589 4026531837 4026532588
List all containers including size sorted by names.
$ podman ps -a --size --sort names
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
69ed779d8ef9f redis:alpine "redis-server" 25 hours ago Created 6379/tcp k8s_container1_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_1
02f65160e14ca redis:alpine "redis-server" 19 hours ago Exited (-1) 19 hours ago 6379/tcp k8s_podsandbox1-redis_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_0
List all external containers created by tools other than Podman.
$ podman ps --external -a
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
69ed779d8ef9f redis:alpine "redis-server" 25 hours ago Created 6379/tcp k8s_container1_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_1
38a8a78596f9 docker.io/library/busybox:latest buildah 2 hours ago storage busybox-working-container
fd7b786b5c32 docker.io/library/alpine:latest buildah 2 hours ago storage alpine-working-container
f78620804e00 scratch buildah 2 hours ago storage working-container
ps
Print a list of containers
SEE ALSO
podman(1), buildah(1), crio(8)
HISTORY
August 2017, Originally compiled by Urvashi Mohnani umohnani@redhat.com
⟨mailto:umohnani@redhat.com⟩
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