podman-stop(1) General Commands Manual podman-stop(1)
NAME
podman-stop - Stop one or more running containers
SYNOPSIS
podman stop [options] container ...
podman container stop [options] container ...
DESCRIPTION
Stops one or more containers using container IDs or names as input. The
--time option specifies the number of seconds to wait before forcibly
stopping the container after the stop command is issued to the con-
tainer. The default is 10 seconds. By default, containers are stopped
with SIGTERM and then SIGKILL after the timeout. The SIGTERM default can
be overridden by the image used to create the container and also via
command line when creating the container.
OPTIONS
--all, -a
Stop all running containers. This does not include paused containers.
--cidfile=file
Read container ID from the specified file and stop the container. Can
be specified multiple times.
Command does not fail when file is missing and user specified --ignore.
--filter, -f=filter
Filter what containers are going to be stopped. 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 │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ 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 │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
│ 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] Containers created │
│ │ before the given duration or │
│ │ time. │
└──────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
--ignore, -i
Ignore errors when specified containers are not in the container store.
A user might have decided to manually remove a container which leads to
a failure during the ExecStop directive of a systemd service referencing
that container.
--latest, -l
Instead of providing the container name or ID, use the last created con-
tainer. Note: the last started container can be from other users of
Podman on the host machine. (This option is not available with the re-
mote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines)
--time, -t=seconds
Seconds to wait before forcibly stopping the container. Use -1 for in-
finite wait.
EXAMPLES
Stop the specified container via its name.
$ podman stop mywebserver
Stop the container via its id.
$ podman stop 860a4b235279
Stop multiple containers.
$ podman stop mywebserver 860a4b235279
Stop the container identified in the cidfile.
$ podman stop --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1
Stop the containers identified in the cidfiles.
$ podman stop --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 --cidfile ./cidfile-2
Stop the specified container in 2 seconds.
$ podman stop --time 2 860a4b235279
Stop all running containers.
$ podman stop -a
Stop the last created container (This option is not available with the
remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) ma-
chines)
$ podman stop --latest
SEE ALSO
podman(1), podman-rm(1)
HISTORY
September 2018, Originally compiled by Brent Baude bbaude@redhat.com
⟨mailto:bbaude@redhat.com⟩
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