podman-container(1)

👑 podman-container — bestie's guide to managing containers

okay so this is the page for podman-container(1) from the General Commands Manual — literally the manual entry for the podman-container command. welcome, you're gonna eat this up 💅

---

✨ NAME ✨

podman-container — Manage containers

that's it, that's the whole vibe. managing containers. iconic behaviour, no notes. 🫶

---

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

podman container subcommand

so the way that works: you call podman container, then you hand it a subcommand, and it does the thing. that's the whole shape of it, bestie. 🎀

---

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The container command allows management of containers.

lowkey that's the entire description... er, the entire description. the container command is your girl for managing containers. full stop, periodt. ✨

---

ok that's part 1, but don't go anywhere — there's more coming 👀

✨ COMMANDS ✨

okay bestie, here's the whole lineup 💅 every single subcommand you can throw at podman to boss your containers around, plus the man page you go read when you want the deep lore:

• attach — man page: podman-attach(1). Attach to a running container. 🫶
• checkpoint — man page: podman-container-checkpoint(1). Checkpoint one or more running containers. 💾
• cleanup — man page: podman-container-cleanup(1). Clean up the container's network and mountpoints. 🧹
• clone — man page: podman-container-clone(1). Create a copy of an existing container. 👯
• commit — man page: podman-commit(1). Create new image based on the changed container. 📸
• cp — man page: podman-cp(1). Copy files/folders between a container and the local filesystem. 📁
• create — man page: podman-create(1). Create a new container. 🌱
• diff — man page: podman-container-diff(1). Inspect changes on a container's filesystem. 🔍
• exec — man page: podman-exec(1). Execute a command in a running container. ⚡
• exists — man page: podman-container-exists(1). Check if a container exists in local storage. 👀
• export — man page: podman-export(1). Export a container's filesystem contents as a tar archive. 📦
• init — man page: podman-init(1). Initialize a container. 🚀
• inspect — man page: podman-container-inspect(1). Display a container's configuration. 🧐
• kill — man page: podman-kill(1). Kill the main process in one or more containers. 💀
• list — man page: podman-ps(1). List the containers on the system.(alias ls) 📋
• logs — man page: podman-logs(1). Display the logs of a container. 📜
• mount — man page: podman-mount(1). Mount a working container's root filesystem. 🗂️
• pause — man page: podman-pause(1). Pause one or more containers. ⏸️
• port — man page: podman-port(1). List port mappings for the container. 🔌
• prune — man page: podman-container-prune(1). Remove all stopped containers from local storage. 🗑️
• ps — man page: podman-ps(1). Print out information about containers. 📊
• rename — man page: podman-rename(1). Rename an existing container. ✏️
• restart — man page: podman-restart(1). Restart one or more containers. 🔄
• restore — man page: podman-container-restore(1). Restore one or more containers from a checkpoint. ♻️
• rm — man page: podman-rm(1). Remove one or more containers. 🧼
• run — man page: podman-run(1). Run a command in a container. 🏃
• runlabel — man page: podman-container-runlabel(1). Execute a command as described by a container-image label. 🏷️

---

like, that's twenty-seven whole commands bestie, no cap 🔥 the range?? we've got everything from "make it" to "yeet it" and honestly? obsessed. 💖

• start — podman-start(1) — Start one or more containers. ✨
• stats — podman-stats(1) — Display a live stream of one or more container's resource usage statistics. 📊
• stop — podman-stop(1) — Stop one or more running containers. 🛑
• top — podman-top(1) — Display the running processes of a container. 👀
• unmount — podman-unmount(1) — Unmount a working container's root filesystem.(Alias unmount) 🧚
• unpause — podman-unpause(1) — Unpause one or more containers. ▶️
• update — podman-update(1) — Update the cgroup configuration of a given container. 🔧
• wait — podman-wait(1) — Wait on one or more containers to stop and print their exit codes. ⏳

---

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

podman(1), podman-exec(1), podman-run(1)

bestie go read those too, they're lowkey essential, no cap 💖

---

and that's a wrap on the whole podman-container(1) page, bestie!! 🎀 the footer down at the bottom is the source/version + date stamp — it's giving "receipts", it's the lil' timestamp that tells you which podman release this manual page came from, and ngl it's the main character of the fine print. slay, you read the whole thing 💅✨