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. Container IDs or names can be used as input.

OPTIONS

--all, -a

Unpause all paused containers.

--cidfile=file

Read container ID from the specified file and unpause the container. Can be specified multiple times.

--filter, -f=filter

Filter what containers unpause. 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)

label

[Key] or [Key=Value] Label assigned to a container

exited

[Int] Container’s exit code

status

[Status] Container’s status: ‘created’, ‘exited’, ‘paused’, ‘running’, ‘unknown’

ancestor

[ImageName] Image or descendant used to create container

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

until

[DateTime] Containers created before the given duration or time.

--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)

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

SEE ALSO

podman(1), podman-pause(1)

HISTORY

September 2017, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com