podman-kill

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 will be sent SIGKILL, or any signal specified with option --signal.

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 container. If you use methods other than Podman to run containers such as CRI-O, the last started container could be from either of those methods. (This option is not available with the remote 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 Kill container with a given ID Terminate container by sending TERM signal Kill the latest container created by Podman Terminate all containers by sending KILL signal Kill container using ID specified in a given files

SEE ALSO

podman(1), podman-stop(1)

HISTORY

September 2017, Originally compiled by Brent Baude [email protected] ⟨mailto:[email protected]⟩