podman-pod-start(1) General Commands Manual podman-pod-start(1)
NAME
podman-pod-start - Start one or more pods
SYNOPSIS
podman pod start [options] pod ...
DESCRIPTION
Start containers in one or more pods. You may use pod IDs or names as
input. The pod must have a container attached to be started.
OPTIONS
--all, -a
Starts all pods
--latest, -l
Instead of providing the pod name or ID, use the last created pod.
Note: the last started pod can be from other users of Podman on the host
machine. (This option is not available with the remote Podman client,
including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines)
--pod-id-file=file
Read pod ID from the specified file and start the pod. Can be specified
multiple times.
EXAMPLE
Start pod with a given name:
podman pod start mywebserverpod
Start pods with given IDs:
podman pod start 860a4b23 5421ab4
Start the latest pod. (This option is not available with the remote Pod-
man client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines):
podman pod start --latest
Start all pods:
podman pod start --all
Start pod using ID specified in a given file:
podman pod start --pod-id-file /path/to/id/file
SEE ALSO
podman(1), podman-pod(1), podman-pod-stop(1)
HISTORY
July 2018, Adapted from podman start man page by Peter Hunt pehunt@red-
hat.com ⟨mailto:pehunt@redhat.com⟩
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