podman-pod-start(1)

NAME

podman-pod-start - Start one or more pods

SYNOPSIS

podman pod start [options] pod ...

DESCRIPTION

Start containers in one or more pods. You may use pod IDs or names as input. The pod must have a container attached to be started.

OPTIONS

  --all, -a

Starts all pods

  --latest, -l

Instead of providing the pod name or ID, use the last created pod. Note: the last started pod 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)

  --pod-id-file=file

Read pod ID from the specified file and start the pod. Can be specified multiple times.

EXAMPLE

Start pod with a given name:
    podman pod start mywebserverpod

Start pods with given IDs:
    podman pod start 860a4b23 5421ab4

Start the latest pod. (This option is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines):
    podman pod start --latest

Start all pods:
    podman pod start --all

Start pod using ID specified in a given file:
    podman pod start --pod-id-file /path/to/id/file

SEE ALSO

podman(1)(podman.1.md), podman-pod(1)(podman-pod.1.md), podman-pod-stop(1)(podman-pod-stop.1.md)

HISTORY

July 2018, Adapted from podman start man page by Peter Hunt pehunt@redhat.com ⟨mailto:pehunt@redhat.com⟩