NAME

podman-stop - Stop one or more running containers

SYNOPSIS

podman stop [options] container ...

podman container stop [options] container ...

DESCRIPTION

Stops one or more containers using container IDs or names as input. The --time option specifies the number of seconds to wait before forcibly stopping the container after the stop command is issued to the container. The default is 10 seconds. By default, containers are stopped with SIGTERM and then SIGKILL after the timeout. The SIGTERM default can be overridden by the image used to create the container and also via command line when creating the container.

OPTIONS

--all, -a

Stop all running containers. This does not include paused containers.

--cidfile=file

Read container ID from the specified file and stop the container. Can be specified multiple times.

Command does not fail when file is missing and user specified --ignore.

--filter, -f=filter

Filter what containers are going to be stopped. 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

--ignore, -i

Ignore errors when specified containers are not in the container store. A user might have decided to manually remove a container which leads to a failure during the ExecStop directive of a systemd service referencing that container.

--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)

--time, -t=seconds

Seconds to wait before forcibly stopping the container. Use -1 for infinite wait.

EXAMPLES

Stop the specified container via its name.

$ podman stop mywebserver

Stop the container via its id.

$ podman stop 860a4b235279

Stop multiple containers.

$ podman stop mywebserver 860a4b235279

Stop the container identified in the cidfile.

$ podman stop --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1

Stop the containers identified in the cidfiles.

$ podman stop --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 --cidfile ./cidfile-2

Stop the specified container in 2 seconds.

$ podman stop --time 2 860a4b235279

Stop all running containers.

$ podman stop -a

Stop the last created container (This option is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines)

$ podman stop --latest

HISTORY

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