github.com/containers/podman/v5@v5.1.0-rc1/docs/source/markdown/podman-pause.1.md.in (about) 1 % podman-pause 1 2 3 ## NAME 4 podman\-pause - Pause one or more containers 5 6 ## SYNOPSIS 7 **podman pause** [*options*] [*container*...] 8 9 **podman container pause** [*options*] [*container*...] 10 11 ## DESCRIPTION 12 Pauses all the processes in one or more containers. You may use container IDs or names as input. 13 14 ## OPTIONS 15 16 #### **--all**, **-a** 17 18 Pause all running containers. 19 20 @@option cidfile.read 21 22 #### **--filter**, **-f**=*filter* 23 24 Filter what containers pause. 25 Multiple filters can be given with multiple uses of the --filter flag. 26 Filters with the same key work inclusive with the only exception being 27 `label` which is exclusive. Filters with different keys always work exclusive. 28 29 Valid filters are listed below: 30 31 | **Filter** | **Description** | 32 |------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------| 33 | id | [ID] Container's ID (CID prefix match by default; accepts regex) | 34 | name | [Name] Container's name (accepts regex) | 35 | label | [Key] or [Key=Value] Label assigned to a container | 36 | exited | [Int] Container's exit code | 37 | status | [Status] Container's status: 'created', 'exited', 'paused', 'running', 'unknown' | 38 | ancestor | [ImageName] Image or descendant used to create container | 39 | before | [ID] or [Name] Containers created before this container | 40 | since | [ID] or [Name] Containers created since this container | 41 | volume | [VolumeName] or [MountpointDestination] Volume mounted in container | 42 | health | [Status] healthy or unhealthy | 43 | pod | [Pod] name or full or partial ID of pod | 44 | network | [Network] name or full ID of network | 45 | until | [DateTime] container created before the given duration or time. | 46 47 @@option latest 48 49 ## EXAMPLE 50 51 Pause specified container: 52 ``` 53 podman pause mywebserver 54 ``` 55 56 Pause container by partial container ID: 57 ``` 58 podman pause 860a4b23 59 ``` 60 61 Pause all **running** containers: 62 ``` 63 podman pause --all 64 ``` 65 66 Pause container using ID specified in given files: 67 ``` 68 podman pause --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 69 podman pause --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 --cidfile ./cidfile-2 70 ``` 71 72 Pause the latest container. (This option is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines): 73 ``` 74 podman pause --latest 75 ``` 76 77 ## SEE ALSO 78 **[podman(1)](podman.1.md)**, **[podman-unpause(1)](podman-unpause.1.md)** 79 80 ## HISTORY 81 September 2017, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>