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, 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
Filter what containers start. 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)
annotation | [Key] or [Key=Value] Annotation assigned to a container
annotation! | [Key] or [Key=Value] Annotation NOT assigned to a container
label | [Key] or [Key=Value] Label assigned to a container
label! | [Key] or [Key=Value] Label NOT assigned to a container
exited | [Int] Container's exit code
status | [Status] Container's status: 'created', 'initialized', 'running', 'stopped', 'paused', 'exited', 'removing', 'stopping', 'unknown'
ancestor | [ImageName] Image or descendant used to create container (accepts regex)
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
restart-policy | [Policy] Container's restart policy (e.g., 'no', 'on-failure', 'always', 'unless-stopped')
until | [DateTime] Containers created before the given duration or time.
command | [Command] the command the container is executing, only argv[0] is taken
should-start-on-boot | [Bool] Containers that need to be restarted after system reboot. True for containers with restart policy 'always', or 'unless-stopped' that were not explicitly stopped by the user

  --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

Start containers by label:
    $ podman start --filter label=app=frontend
    9351ccb3ef4272532bc0c188bd4f0ddfc2b0de217732cd108259ea126b014647

Start container by name:
    $ podman start --filter name=backend-app1
    93308911bd4769cda03b75eb7f56588e862e0ea3568f25e1e3defa4138b9b973

Start containers by status:
    $ podman start --filter status=exited
    f8e85f84a749b205fb602895afa6ec8a866045ff27b82f843033712c8b93a2c9
    34f997d354017a0076402c3a79245a5b8bd11b597c84385bec25ae8941fd5238
    47972eb04aa7c77705b597a929957d1e8a392e00b44c0a2a7f88a01f9f860d11

Start container by name:
    $ podman start --filter name=backend-app1
    93308911bd4769cda03b75eb7f56588e862e0ea3568f25e1e3defa4138b9b973

Start containers by volume:
    $ podman start --filter volume=web-vol
    4a3332649ed8bec1e0d82e113074b9a13d45582007aeac969c005992cc480a73

Start container by network:
    $ podman start --filter network=web-net
    4a3332649ed8bec1e0d82e113074b9a13d45582007aeac969c005992cc480a73
    f8e85f84a749b205fb602895afa6ec8a866045ff27b82f843033712c8b93a2c9

Start container by ancestor:
    $ podman start --filter ancestor=nginx
    4a3332649ed8bec1e0d82e113074b9a13d45582007aeac969c005992cc480a73
    47972eb04aa7c77705b597a929957d1e8a392e00b44c0a2a7f88a01f9f860d11

SEE ALSO
podman(1)(podman.1.md)

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