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, 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', 'initialized', '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.
command	[Command] the command the container is executing, only argv[0] is taken

--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, reading 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 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

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 (excluding WSL2) machines):

podman start -i -l

HISTORY

November 2018, Originally compiled by Brent Baude bbaude@redhat.com ⟨mailto:bbaude@redhat.com⟩