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NAME
podman-start - Start one or more containers
SYNOPSIS
podman start [options] container ...
podman container start [options] container ...
DESCRIPTION
Start one or more containers using container IDs or names as input. The
attach and interactive options cannot be used to override the --tty and
--interactive options from when the container was created. Starting an
already running container with the --attach option, Podman simply at-
taches to the container.
OPTIONS
--all
Start all the containers, default is only running containers.
--attach, -a
Attach container's STDOUT and STDERR. The default is false. This option
cannot be used when starting multiple containers.
--detach-keys=sequence
Specify the key sequence for detaching a container. Format is a single
character [a-Z] or one or more ctrl-<value> characters where <value> is
one of: a-z, @, ^, [, , or _. Specifying "" disables this feature. The
default is ctrl-p,ctrl-q.
This option can also be set in containers.conf(5) file.
--filter, -f
Filter what containers are going to be started from the given arguments.
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 exclusive. Filters with different keys always work exclu-
sive.
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. │
└──────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
--interactive, -i
When set to true, make stdin available to the contained process. If
false, the stdin of the contained process is empty and immediately
closed.
If attached, stdin is piped to the contained process. If detached, read-
ing stdin will block until later attached.
Caveat: Podman will consume input from stdin as soon as it becomes
available, even if the contained process doesn't request it.
--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)
--sig-proxy
Proxy received signals to the container process. SIGCHLD, SIGURG,
SIGSTOP, and SIGKILL are not proxied.
The default is true when attaching, false otherwise.
EXAMPLE
Start specified container:
podman start mywebserver
Start multiple containers:
podman start 860a4b231279 5421ab43b45
Start specified container in interactive mode with terminal attached:
podman start --interactive --attach 860a4b231279
Start last created container in interactive mode (This option is not
available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (ex-
cluding WSL2) machines):
podman start -i -l
SEE ALSO
podman(1)
HISTORY
November 2018, Originally compiled by Brent Baude bbaude@redhat.com
⟨mailto:bbaude@redhat.com⟩
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