podman-unpause(1)

💜 podman-unpause(1) — the glow-up edition

Okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for podman-unpause, and no cap this one's a little baddie: it wakes your paused containers back up. Let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME

podman-unpause — Unpause one or more containers

🦋 SYNOPSIS

podman unpause [options]|[container ...]

podman container unpause [options]|[container ...]

🎀 DESCRIPTION

Unpauses the processes in one or more containers. You can feed it container IDs or names as input — either one eats, fr fr.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

Here's where the real main character energy lives 👑

• --all, -a — Unpause all paused containers. Every last one. The whole group chat gets un-muted 💅
• --cidfile=file — Read the container ID from the file you point at and unpause that container. And yes, you can drop this flag multiple times — multiple cidfiles, multiple containers, go off 🫶
• --filter, -f=filter — This is the "which containers are we even talking about" filter. Multiple filters? Just use --filter multiple times, easy. Now listen closely because this part is lowkey important:
  • Filters with the same key work inclusive — the one and only exception being label, which is exclusive.
  • Filters with different keys always work exclusive.

Valid filters, bestie, all of them, in order 🌈:

• 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

• --latest, -l — Instead of handing over a container name or ID, just grab the last created container. Iconic, lazy, love it. But — heads up 👀 — the last started container can be from other users of Podman on the host machine. Also: this option is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines. Noted, no surprises later 💀

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🔥 EXAMPLE

Unpause specified container:

podman unpause mywebserver

Unpause container by a partial container ID:

podman unpause 860a4b23

Unpause all paused containers:

podman unpause --all

Unpause container using ID specified in given files:

podman unpause --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1
podman unpause --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 --cidfile ./cidfile-2

Unpause the latest container. (This option is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines):

podman unpause --latest

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🧚 SEE ALSO

podman(1), podman-pause(1)

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⭐ HISTORY

September 2017, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com ⟨mailto:dwalsh@redhat.com⟩ — a real one, we stan 🫶

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💖 And that's the page! Go forth and un-pause things, queen. Periodt.

Stay slay, stay paused-free — this has been podman-unpause(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated September 2017. Mwah 💋