podman-kill - Man Page
Kill the main process in one or more containers
Synopsis
podman kill [options] [container ...]
podman container kill [options] [container ...]
Description
The main process inside each container specified is sent SIGKILL or any signal specified with the --signal option.
Options
--all, -a
Signal all running and paused containers.
--cidfile=file
Read container ID from the specified file and kill the container. Can be specified multiple times.
--latest, -l
Instead of providing the container name or ID, use the last created container. Note: the last started container 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)
--signal, -s=signal
Signal to send to the container. For more information on Linux signals, refer to signal(7). The default is SIGKILL.
Example
Kill container with a given name
podman kill mywebserver
Kill container with a given ID
podman kill 860a4b23
Terminate container by sending TERM signal
podman kill --signal TERM 860a4b23
Kill the latest container created by Podman
podman kill --latest
Terminate all containers by sending KILL signal
podman kill --signal KILL -a
Kill container using ID specified in a given files
podman kill --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 podman kill --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 --cidfile ./cidfile-2
See Also
History
September 2017, Originally compiled by Brent Baude bbaude@redhat.com ⟨mailto:bbaude@redhat.com⟩
Referenced By
podman(1), podman-container(1), podman-create(1), podman-remote(1), podman-run(1).
The man page podman-container-kill(1) is an alias of podman-kill(1).