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. 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 bbaude@redhat.com ⟨mailto:bbaude@redhat.com⟩