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NAME
podman-ps - Print out information about containers
SYNOPSIS
podman ps [options]
podman container ps [options]
podman container list [options]
podman container ls [options]
DESCRIPTION
podman ps lists the running containers on the system. Use the --all flag to view all the containers
information. By default it lists:
• container id
• the name of the image the container is using
• the COMMAND the container is executing
• the time the container was created
• the status of the container
• port mappings the container is using
• alternative names for the container
OPTIONS
--all, -a
Show all the containers, default is only running containers.
Note: Podman shares containers storage with other tools such as Buildah and CRI-O. In some cases these
external containers might also exist in the same storage. Use the --external option to see these external
containers. External containers show the 'storage' status.
--external
Display external containers that are not controlled by Podman but are stored in containers storage.
These external containers are generally created via other container technology such as Buildah or CRI-O
and may depend on the same container images that Podman is also using. External containers are denoted
with either a 'buildah' or 'storage' in the COMMAND and STATUS column of the ps output.
--filter, -f
Filter what containers are shown in the output. 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 │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ label! │ [Key] or [Key=Value] Label NOT │
│ │ assigned to a container │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ exited │ [Int] Container's exit code │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ status │ [Status] Container's status: │
│ │ 'created', 'initialized', 'exited', │
│ │ 'paused', 'running', 'unknown' │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ancestor │ [ImageName] Image or descendant used │
│ │ to create container (accepts regex) │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 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] container created before │
│ │ the given duration or time. │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ command │ [Command] the command the container │
│ │ is executing, only argv[0] is taken │
└──────────┴───────────────────────────────────────┘
--format=format
Pretty-print containers to JSON or using a Go template
Valid placeholders for the Go template are listed below:
┌───────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Placeholder │ Description │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .AutoRemove │ If true, containers are removed on │
│ │ exit │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .CIDFile │ Container ID File │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Command │ Quoted command used │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Created ... │ Creation time for container, Y-M-D │
│ │ H:M:S │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .CreatedAt │ Creation time for container (same as │
│ │ above) │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .CreatedHuman │ Creation time, relative │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .ExitCode │ Container exit code │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Exited │ "true" if container has exited │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .ExitedAt │ Time (epoch seconds) that container │
│ │ exited │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .ExposedPorts ... │ Map of exposed ports on this │
│ │ container │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .ID │ Container ID │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Image │ Image Name/ID │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .ImageID │ Image ID │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .IsInfra │ "true" if infra container │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Label string │ Specified label of the container │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Labels ... │ All the labels assigned to the │
│ │ container │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Mounts │ Volumes mounted in the container │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Names │ Name of container │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Networks │ Show all networks connected to the │
│ │ container │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Pid │ Process ID on host system │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Pod │ Pod the container is associated with │
│ │ (SHA) │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .PodName │ PodName of the container │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Ports │ Forwarded and exposed ports │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Restarts │ Display the container restart count │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .RunningFor │ Time elapsed since container was │
│ │ started │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Size │ Size of container │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .StartedAt │ Time (epoch seconds) the container │
│ │ started │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .State │ Human-friendly description of ctr │
│ │ state │
├───────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .Status │ Status of container │
└───────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────┘
--help, -h
Print usage statement
--last, -n
Print the n last created containers (all states)
--latest, -l
Show the latest container created (all states) (This option is not available with the remote Podman
client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines)
--namespace, --ns
Display namespace information
--no-trunc
Do not truncate the output (default false).
--noheading
Omit the table headings from the listing of containers.
--pod, -p
Display the pods the containers are associated with
--quiet, -q
Print the numeric IDs of the containers only
--size, -s
Display the total file size
--sort=created
Sort by command, created, id, image, names, runningfor, size, or status", Note: Choosing size sorts by
size of rootFs, not alphabetically like the rest of the options
--sync
Force a sync of container state with the OCI runtime. In some cases, a container's state in the runtime
can become out of sync with Podman's state. This updates Podman's state based on what the OCI runtime
reports. Forcibly syncing is much slower, but can resolve inconsistent state issues.
--watch, -w
Refresh the output with current containers on an interval in seconds.
EXAMPLES
List running containers.
$ podman ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
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
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
List all containers.
$ podman ps -a
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
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
69ed779d8ef9f redis:alpine "redis-server" 25 hours ago Created 6379/tcp k8s_container1_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_1
List all containers including their size. Note: this can take longer since Podman needs to calculate the
size from the file system.
$ podman ps -a -s
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES SIZE
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
69ed779d8ef9f redis:alpine "redis-server" 25 hours ago Created 6379/tcp k8s_container1_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_1 27.49 MB
List all containers, running or not, using a custom Go format.
$ podman ps -a --format "{{.ID}} {{.Image}} {{.Labels}} {{.Mounts}}"
02f65160e14ca redis:alpine tier=backend proc,tmpfs,devpts,shm,mqueue,sysfs,cgroup,/var/run/,/var/run/
69ed779d8ef9f redis:alpine batch=no,type=small proc,tmpfs,devpts,shm,mqueue,sysfs,cgroup,/var/run/,/var/run/
List all containers and display their namespaces.
$ podman ps --ns -a
CONTAINER ID NAMES PID CGROUP IPC MNT NET PIDNS USER UTS
3557d882a82e3 k8s_container2_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_1 29910 4026531835 4026532585 4026532593 4026532508 4026532595 4026531837 4026532594
09564cdae0bec k8s_container1_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_1 29851 4026531835 4026532585 4026532590 4026532508 4026532592 4026531837 4026532591
a31ebbee9cee7 k8s_podsandbox1-redis_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_0 29717 4026531835 4026532585 4026532587 4026532508 4026532589 4026531837 4026532588
List all containers including size sorted by names.
$ podman ps -a --size --sort names
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
69ed779d8ef9f redis:alpine "redis-server" 25 hours ago Created 6379/tcp k8s_container1_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_1
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
List all external containers created by tools other than Podman.
$ podman ps --external -a
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
69ed779d8ef9f redis:alpine "redis-server" 25 hours ago Created 6379/tcp k8s_container1_podsandbox1_redhat.test.crio_redhat-test-crio_1
38a8a78596f9 docker.io/library/busybox:latest buildah 2 hours ago storage busybox-working-container
fd7b786b5c32 docker.io/library/alpine:latest buildah 2 hours ago storage alpine-working-container
f78620804e00 scratch buildah 2 hours ago storage working-container
List containers with their associated pods.
$ podman ps --pod
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES POD ID PODNAME
4089df24d4f3 docker.io/library/nginx:latest nginx 2 minutes ago Up 2 minutes 80/tcp webserver 1234567890ab web-pod
92f58933c28c docker.io/library/redis:latest redis 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes 6379/tcp cache 1234567890ab web-pod
a1b2c3d4e5f6 docker.io/library/centos:latest /bin/bash 1 minute ago Up 1 minute standalone-container
List all containers with pod information, including those not in pods.
$ podman ps -a --pod
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES POD ID PODNAME
4089df24d4f3 docker.io/library/nginx:latest nginx 2 minutes ago Up 2 minutes 80/tcp webserver 1234567890ab web-pod
92f58933c28c docker.io/library/redis:latest redis 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes 6379/tcp cache 1234567890ab web-pod
69ed779d8ef9f redis:alpine redis 25 hours ago Exited (0) 25 hours ago 6379/tcp old-cache 5678901234cd old-pod
a1b2c3d4e5f6 docker.io/library/centos:latest /bin/bash 1 minute ago Up 1 minute standalone-container
Filter containers by pod name.
$ podman ps --filter pod=web-pod
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
4089df24d4f3 docker.io/library/nginx:latest nginx 2 minutes ago Up 2 minutes 80/tcp webserver
92f58933c28c docker.io/library/redis:latest redis 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes 6379/tcp cache
Filter containers by Status.
$ podman ps --filter status=running
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
ff660efda598 docker.io/library/nginx:latest nginx -g daemon o... 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes 0.0.0.0:8080->80/tcp webserver
5693e934f4c6 docker.io/library/redis:latest redis-server 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes 6379/tcp cache
2b271d67dbb6 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes 0.0.0.0:9090->80/tcp 463241862e7e-infra
23f99674da1c docker.io/library/nginx:latest nginx -g daemon o... 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes 0.0.0.0:9090->80/tcp pod-nginx
62180adfbd42 docker.io/library/redis:latest redis-server 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes 0.0.0.0:9090->80/tcp, 6379/tcp pod-redis
5e3694604817 quay.io/centos/centos:latest sleep 300 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes centos-test
af3d8b3f5471 docker.io/library/busybox:latest sleep 1000 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes test-dev
b6ee47492b64 docker.io/library/nginx:latest nginx -g daemon o... 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes (healthy) 80/tcp healthy-nginx
db75e6c397db docker.io/library/busybox:latest sleep 300 23 seconds ago Up 23 seconds test-volume-container
$ podman ps -a --filter status=exited
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
94f211cc6e36 docker.io/library/alpine:latest sleep 1 4 minutes ago Exited (0) 4 minutes ago old-alpine
75a800cb848a docker.io/library/mysql:latest mysqld 3 minutes ago Exited (1) 3 minutes ago 3306/tcp, 33060/tcp db-container
2d9b3a94e31e docker.io/library/nginx:latest nginx 3 minutes ago Exited (0) 3 minutes ago 80/tcp nginx-cmd
Filter containers by name.
$ podman ps --filter name=webserver
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
ff660efda598 docker.io/library/nginx:latest nginx -g daemon o... 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes 0.0.0.0:8080->80/tcp webserver
Filter containers by label.
$ podman ps --filter label=app=frontend
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
ff660efda598 docker.io/library/nginx:latest nginx -g daemon o... 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes 0.0.0.0:8080->80/tcp webserver
Filter containers by volume.
$ podman ps --filter volume=mydata
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
db75e6c397db docker.io/library/busybox:latest sleep 300 42 seconds ago Up 42 seconds test-volume-container
Filter containers by network.
$ podman ps --filter network=web-net
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
5e3694604817 quay.io/centos/centos:latest sleep 300 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes centos-test
Use custom format to show container and pod information.
$ podman ps --format "{{.Names}} is in pod {{.PodName}} ({{.Pod}})"
webserver is in pod web-pod (1234567890ab)
cache is in pod web-pod (1234567890ab)
standalone-container is in pod ()
SEE ALSO
podman(1), buildah(1), crio(8)
HISTORY
August 2017, Originally compiled by Urvashi Mohnani umohnani@redhat.com ⟨mailto:umohnani@redhat.com⟩
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