| podman-start(1) | General Commands Manual | podman-start(1) |
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 attaches 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 "" 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 exclusive.
Valid filters are listed below:
| Filter | Description |
| id | [ID] Container's ID (CID prefix match by default; 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 |
| until | [DateTime] Containers created before the given duration or time. |
--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. Note: the last started container 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)
--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¶
podman start mywebserver
podman start 860a4b231279 5421ab43b45
podman start --interactive --attach 860a4b231279
podman start -i -l
SEE ALSO¶
HISTORY¶
November 2018, Originally compiled by Brent Baude bbaude@redhat.com ⟨mailto:bbaude@redhat.com⟩