NAME

podman-start - Start one or more containers
 

SYNOPSIS

podman start [options] container ...
 
podman container start [options] container ...
 

DESCRIPTION

Start one or more containers. You may use 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. If you attempt to start a running container with the --attach option, podman will simply attach to the container.
 

OPTIONS

--all

Start all the containers created by Podman, 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 "" will disable 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 exclusive.
 
Valid filters are listed below:
 
Filter Description
id [ID] Container's ID (accepts regex)
name [Name] Container's name (accepts regex)
label [Key] or [Key=Value] Label assigned to a container
exited [Int] Container's exit code
status [Status] Container's status: 'created', 'exited', 'paused', 'running', 'unknown'
ancestor [ImageName] Image or descendant 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 [MountpointDestination] 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
 

--interactive, -i

When set to true, keep stdin open even if not attached. The default is false.
 

--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)
 

--sig-proxy

Proxy received signals to the container process (non-TTY mode only). SIGCHLD, SIGSTOP, and SIGKILL are not proxied.
 
The default is true when attaching, false otherwise.
 

EXAMPLE

podman start mywebserver
 
podman start 860a4b231279 5421ab43b45
 
podman start --interactive --attach 860a4b231279
 
podman start -i -l
 

SEE ALSO

podman(1)
 

HISTORY

November 2018, Originally compiled by Brent Baude [email protected] ⟨mailto:[email protected]

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