podman-pod-pause(1)

💖 podman-pod-pause(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to podman-pod-pause, the little command that hits the pause button on your pods 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

podman-pod-pause — pause one or more pods, no cap

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

podman pod pause [options] pod ...

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the vibe: this pauses all the running processes inside the containers of one or more pods. Just like that. Frozen. Like when someone says "wait, say that again" and the whole group chat goes silent 🧊

And the way you tell it which pods? You can use pod IDs or pod names as input, whichever you have on hand. Slay. 💅

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --all, -a — pause literally all the pods. every single one. the whole squad 🌈
• --latest, -l — instead of handing over a pod name or ID, this pauses the last created pod. main character energy, only the freshest one gets the treatment 👑

heads up bestie: --latest is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows machines (WSL2 excluded). so if that's you, this flag said "not me" 🙈

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✨ EXAMPLES ✨

Pause a pod with a given name:

$ podman pod pause mywebserverpod

Pause a pod with a given ID:

$ podman pod pause 860a4b23

Pause all pods:

$ podman pod pause --all
817973d45404da08f1fe393a13c8eeb0948f4a259d8835f083370b4a63cb0431
0793d692719c8ef1f983fd29d7568e817c5a8e865e2b3925201a75dce24cfe80

see how it spits out those IDs back at you? iconic behavior honestly 🔥

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

podman(1), podman-pod(1), podman-pod-unpause(1), podman-pause(1)

go read the unpause one when you're done pausing, iykyk 🦋

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✨ HISTORY ✨

July 2018, Originally compiled by Peter Hunt pehunt@redhat.com ⟨mailto:pehunt@redhat.com⟩

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 it lives in the podman-pod-pause(1) section of the manual, and Peter Hunt has been carrying this since July 2018 — we thank him for his service 🎀 periodt ✨