1podman-ps(1) General Commands Manual podman-ps(1)
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6 podman-ps - Print out information about containers
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10 podman ps [options]
11 podman container ps [options]
14 podman container list [options]
17 podman container ls [options]
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23 podman ps lists the running containers on the system. Use the --all
24 flag to view all the containers information. By default it lists:
25 • container id
28 • the name of the image the container is using
30 • the COMMAND the container is executing
32 • the time the container was created
34 • the status of the container
36 • port mappings the container is using
38 • alternative names for the container
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44 --all, -a
45 Show all the containers created by Podman, default is only running con‐
46 tainers.
47 Note: Podman shares containers storage with other tools such as Buildah
50 and CRI-O. In some cases these external containers might also exist in
51 the same storage. Use the --external option to see these external con‐
52 tainers. External containers show the 'storage' status.
53 --external
56 Display external containers that are not controlled by Podman but are
57 stored in containers storage. These external containers are generally
58 created via other container technology such as Buildah or CRI-O and may
59 depend on the same container images that Podman is also using. Exter‐
60 nal containers are denoted with either a 'buildah' or 'storage' in the
61 COMMAND and STATUS column of the ps output.
62 --filter, -f
65 Filter what containers are shown in the output. Multiple filters can
66 be given with multiple uses of the --filter flag. Filters with the
67 same key work inclusive with the only exception being label which is
68 exclusive. Filters with different keys always work exclusive.
69 Valid filters are listed below:
72 ┌─────────┬───────────────────────────────┐
75 │Filter │ Description │
76 ├─────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
77 │id │ [ID] Container's ID (CID pre‐ │
78 │ │ fix match by default; accepts │
79 │ │ regex) │
80 ├─────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
81 │name │ [Name] Container's name (ac‐ │
82 │ │ cepts regex) │
83 ├─────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
84 │label │ [Key] or [Key=Value] Label │
85 │ │ assigned to a container │
86 ├─────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
87 │label! │ [Key] or [Key=Value] Label │
88 │ │ NOT assigned to a container │
89 ├─────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
90 │exited │ [Int] Container's exit code │
91 ├─────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
92 │status │ [Status] Container's status: │
93 │ │ 'created', 'exited', │
94 │ │ 'paused', 'running', 'un‐ │
95 │ │ known' │
96 ├─────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
97 │ancestor │ [ImageName] Image or descen‐ │
98 │ │ dant used to create container │
99 │ │ (accepts regex) │
100 ├─────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
101 │before │ [ID] or [Name] Containers │
102 │ │ created before this container │
103 ├─────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
104 │since │ [ID] or [Name] Containers │
105 │ │ created since this container │
106 ├─────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
107 │volume │ [VolumeName] or [Mountpoint‐ │
108 │ │ Destination] Volume mounted │
109 │ │ in container │
110 ├─────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
111 │health │ [Status] healthy or unhealthy │
112 ├─────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
113 │pod │ [Pod] name or full or partial │
114 │ │ ID of pod │
115 ├─────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
116 │network │ [Network] name or full ID of │
117 │ │ network │
118 ├─────────┼───────────────────────────────┤
119 │until │ [DateTime] container created │
120 │ │ before the given duration or │
121 │ │ time. │
122 └─────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
123 --format=format
125 Pretty-print containers to JSON or using a Go template
126 Valid placeholders for the Go template are listed below:
129 ┌──────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
132 │Placeholder │ Description │
133 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
134 │.AutoRemove │ If true, containers are re‐ │
135 │ │ moved on exit │
136 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
137 │.CIDFile │ Container ID File │
138 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
139 │.Command │ Quoted command used │
140 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
141 │.Created │ Creation time for container, │
142 │ │ Y-M-D H:M:S │
143 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
144 │.CreatedAt │ Creation time for container │
145 │ │ (same as above) │
146 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
147 │.CreatedHuman │ Creation time, relative │
148 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
149 │.ExitCode │ Container exit code │
150 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
151 │.Exited │ "true" if container has exited │
152 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
153 │.ExitedAt │ Time (epoch seconds) that con‐ │
154 │ │ tainer exited │
155 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
156 │.ID │ Container ID │
157 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
158 │.Image │ Image Name/ID │
159 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
160 │.ImageID │ Image ID │
161 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
162 │.IsInfra │ "true" if infra container │
163 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
164 │.Labels │ All the labels assigned to the │
165 │ │ container │
166 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
167 │.Mounts │ Volumes mounted in the con‐ │
168 │ │ tainer │
169 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
170 │.Names │ Name of container │
171 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
172 │.Networks │ Show all networks connected to │
173 │ │ the container │
174 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
175 │.Pid │ Process ID on host system │
176 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
177 │.Pod │ Pod the container is associ‐ │
178 │ │ ated with (SHA) │
179 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
180 │.PodName │ Seems to be empty no matter │
181 │ │ what │
182 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
183 │.Ports │ Exposed ports │
184 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
185 │.Restarts │ Display the container restart │
186 │ │ count │
187 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
188 │.RunningFor │ Time elapsed since container │
189 │ │ was started │
190 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
191 │.Size │ Size of container │
192 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
193 │.StartedAt │ Time (epoch seconds) the con‐ │
194 │ │ tainer started │
195 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
196 │.State │ Human-friendly description of │
197 │ │ ctr state │
198 ├──────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
199 │.Status │ Status of container │
200 └──────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘
201 --help, -h
203 Print usage statement
204 --last, -n
207 Print the n last created containers (all states)
208 --latest, -l
211 Show the latest container created (all states) (This option is not
212 available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (ex‐
213 cluding WSL2) machines)
214 --namespace, --ns
217 Display namespace information
218 --no-trunc
221 Do not truncate the output (default false).
222 --noheading
225 Omit the table headings from the listing of containers.
226 --pod, -p
229 Display the pods the containers are associated with
230 --quiet, -q
233 Print the numeric IDs of the containers only
234 --size, -s
237 Display the total file size
238 --sort=created
241 Sort by command, created, id, image, names, runningfor, size, or sta‐
242 tus", Note: Choosing size sorts by size of rootFs, not alphabetically
243 like the rest of the options
244 --sync
247 Force a sync of container state with the OCI runtime. In some cases, a
248 container's state in the runtime can become out of sync with Podman's
249 state. This updates Podman's state based on what the OCI runtime re‐
250 ports. Forcibly syncing is much slower, but can resolve inconsistent
251 state issues.
252 --watch, -w
255 Refresh the output with current containers on an interval in seconds.
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259 $ podman ps -a
260 CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
261 02f65160e14ca redis:alpine "redis-server" 19 hours ago Exited (-1) 19 hours ago 6379/tcp k8s_podsandbox1-redis_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_0
262 69ed779d8ef9f redis:alpine "redis-server" 25 hours ago Created 6379/tcp k8s_container1_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_1
263 $ podman ps -a -s
266 CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES SIZE
267 02f65160e14ca redis:alpine "redis-server" 20 hours ago Exited (-1) 20 hours ago 6379/tcp k8s_podsandbox1-redis_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_0 27.49 MB
268 69ed779d8ef9f redis:alpine "redis-server" 25 hours ago Created 6379/tcp k8s_container1_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_1 27.49 MB
269 $ podman ps -a --format "{{.ID}} {{.Image}} {{.Labels}} {{.Mounts}}"
272 02f65160e14ca redis:alpine tier=backend proc,tmpfs,devpts,shm,mqueue,sysfs,cgroup,/var/run/,/var/run/
273 69ed779d8ef9f redis:alpine batch=no,type=small proc,tmpfs,devpts,shm,mqueue,sysfs,cgroup,/var/run/,/var/run/
274 $ podman ps --ns -a
277 CONTAINER ID NAMES PID CGROUP IPC MNT NET PIDNS USER UTS
278 3557d882a82e3 k8s_container2_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_1 29910 4026531835 4026532585 4026532593 4026532508 4026532595 4026531837 4026532594
279 09564cdae0bec k8s_container1_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_1 29851 4026531835 4026532585 4026532590 4026532508 4026532592 4026531837 4026532591
280 a31ebbee9cee7 k8s_podsandbox1-redis_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_0 29717 4026531835 4026532585 4026532587 4026532508 4026532589 4026531837 4026532588
281 $ podman ps -a --size --sort names
284 CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
285 69ed779d8ef9f redis:alpine "redis-server" 25 hours ago Created 6379/tcp k8s_container1_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_1
286 02f65160e14ca redis:alpine "redis-server" 19 hours ago Exited (-1) 19 hours ago 6379/tcp k8s_podsandbox1-redis_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_0
287 $ podman ps
290 CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
291 4089df24d4f3 docker.io/library/centos:latest /bin/bash 2 minutes ago Up 2 minutes 0.0.0.0:80->8080/tcp, 0.0.0.0:2000-2006->2000-2006/tcp manyports
292 92f58933c28c docker.io/library/centos:latest /bin/bash 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes 192.168.99.100:1000-1006->1000-1006/tcp zen_sanderson
293 $ podman ps --external -a
297 CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
298 69ed779d8ef9f redis:alpine "redis-server" 25 hours ago Created 6379/tcp k8s_container1_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_1
299 38a8a78596f9 docker.io/library/busybox:latest buildah 2 hours ago storage busybox-working-container
300 fd7b786b5c32 docker.io/library/alpine:latest buildah 2 hours ago storage alpine-working-container
301 f78620804e00 scratch buildah 2 hours ago storage working-container
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306 Print a list of containers
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310 podman(1), buildah(1), crio(8)
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314 August 2017, Originally compiled by Urvashi Mohnani umohnani@redhat.com
315 ⟨mailto:umohnani@redhat.com⟩
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