podman-kill(1) General Commands Manual podman-kill(1)
NAME
podman-kill - Kill the main process in one or more containers
SYNOPSIS
podman kill [options] [container ...]
podman container kill [options] [container ...]
DESCRIPTION
The main process inside each container specified is sent SIGKILL or any
signal specified with the --signal option.
OPTIONS
--all, -a
Signal all running and paused containers.
--cidfile=file
Read container ID from the specified file and kill the container. Can
be specified multiple times.
--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)
--signal, -s=signal
Signal to send to the container. For more information on Linux signals,
refer to signal(7). The default is SIGKILL.
EXAMPLE
Kill container with a given name:
podman kill mywebserver
Kill container with a given ID:
podman kill 860a4b23
Terminate container by sending TERM signal:
podman kill --signal TERM 860a4b23
Kill the latest container. (This option is not available with the remote
Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines):
podman kill --latest
Terminate all containers by sending KILL signal:
podman kill --signal KILL -a
Kill containers using ID specified in a given files:
podman kill --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1
podman kill --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 --cidfile ./cidfile-2
SEE ALSO
podman(1), podman-stop(1)
HISTORY
September 2017, Originally compiled by Brent Baude bbaude@redhat.com
⟨mailto:bbaude@redhat.com⟩
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