podman-pause - Man Page
Pause one or more containers
Synopsis
podman pause [options] [container...]
podman container pause [options] [container...]
Description
Pauses all the processes in one or more containers. You may use container IDs or names as input.
Options
--all, -a
Pause all running containers.
--cidfile=file
Read container ID from the specified file and pause the container. Can be specified multiple times.
--filter, -f=filter
Filter what containers pause. 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] container created before the given duration or time. |
--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)
Example
Pause specified container:
podman pause mywebserver
Pause container by partial container ID:
podman pause 860a4b23
Pause all running containers:
podman pause --all
Pause container using ID specified in given files:
podman pause --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 podman pause --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 --cidfile ./cidfile-2
Pause the latest container. (This option is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines):
podman pause --latest
See Also
History
September 2017, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com ⟨mailto:dwalsh@redhat.com⟩
Referenced By
podman(1), podman-container(1), podman-pod-pause(1), podman-remote(1), podman-unpause(1).
The man pages docker-container-pause(1), docker-pause(1) and podman-container-pause(1) are aliases of podman-pause(1).