% podman-pause 1

## NAME
podman\-pause - Pause one or more containers

## SYNOPSIS
**podman pause** [*options*] [*container*...]

**podman container pause** [*options*] [*container*...]

## DESCRIPTION
Pauses all the processes in one or more containers.  You may use container IDs or names as input.

## OPTIONS

#### **--all**, **-a**

Pause all running containers.


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#### **--cidfile**=*file*

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

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#### **--filter**, **-f**=*filter*

Filter what containers pause.
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 (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                                             |

#### **--latest**, **-l**

Instead of providing the container name or ID, use the last created container. If you use methods other than Podman
to run containers such as CRI-O, the last started container could be from either of those methods. (This option is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines)

## EXAMPLE

Pause container named 'mywebserver'
```
podman pause mywebserver
```

Pause container by partial container ID.
```
podman pause 860a4b23
```

Pause all **running** containers.
```
podman pause --all
```

Pause container using ID specified in a given files.
```
podman pause --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1
podman pause --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 --cidfile ./cidfile-2
```

Pause the latest container created by Podman.
```
podman pause --latest
```

## SEE ALSO
**[podman(1)](podman.1.md)**, **[podman-unpause(1)](podman-unpause.1.md)**

## HISTORY
September 2017, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>