10.d Perform basic container management such as running, starting, stopping, and listing running containers

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You can use 'podman images'

# podman images
REPOSITORY                 TAG     IMAGE ID      CREATED        SIZE
docker.io/sameersbn/squid  latest  a68a19f689c3  17 months ago  168 MB
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Or 'podman image ls'

# podman image ls
  REPOSITORY                 TAG     IMAGE ID      CREATED        SIZE
  docker.io/sameersbn/squid  latest  a68a19f689c3  17 months ago  168 MB
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Create a container from image without starting it

# podman create docker.io/sameersbn/squid
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Create a container from image and start attached

# podman run [image]
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📝 NOTE: When using 'podman run', If the image doesn't exist it will try to pull it from the registry.

Create a container from image and start detached

# podman run –d [image]
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Start a container

# podman start [container ID]
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List only running containers

# podman ps
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                             COMMAND  CREATED         STATUS            PORTS   NAMES
41cc3053faa0  docker.io/sameersbn/squid:latest           9 minutes ago   Up 6 minutes ago          awesome_meninsky
ff12876812fe  docker.io/sameersbn/squid:latest           10 seconds ago  Up 9 seconds ago          nervous_kepler
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List all containers (even stopped containers)

# podman ps -a
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                             COMMAND  CREATED             STATUS                       PORTS   NAMES
41cc3053faa0  docker.io/sameersbn/squid:latest           10 minutes ago      Up 7 minutes ago                     awesome_meninsky
ff12876812fe  docker.io/sameersbn/squid:latest           About a minute ago  Exited (137) 24 seconds ago          nervous_kepler
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List containers that have stopped

# podman ps -f "status=exited"
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                             COMMAND  CREATED        STATUS                           PORTS   NAMES
ff12876812fe  docker.io/sameersbn/squid:latest           2 minutes ago  Exited (137) About a minute ago          nervous_kepler
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# podman stop ff12876812fe
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📝 NOTE: The stop commands attempts to stop the container, and if the container does not stop after 10s it will kill the container process.

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