automation-tests/docs/podman-ps.1.md

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NAME

podman-ps - Prints out information about containers

SYNOPSIS

podman ps [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

--no-trunc

Display the extended information

--quiet, -q

Print the numeric IDs of the containers only

--format

Pretty-print containers to JSON or using a Go template

Valid placeholders for the Go template are listed below:

Placeholder	Description
.ID	Container ID
.Image	Image ID/Name
.Command	Quoted command used
.CreatedAt	Creation time for container
.RunningFor	Time elapsed since container was started
.Status	Status of container
.Ports	Exposed ports
.Size	Size of container
.Names	Name of container
.Labels	All the labels assigned to the container
.Mounts	Volumes mounted in the container

--sort

Sort by command, created, id, image, names, runningfor, size, or status", Note: Choosing size will sort by size of rootFs, not alphabetically like the rest of the options Default: created

--size, -s

Display the total file size

--last, -n

Print the n last created containers (all states)

--latest, -l

Show the latest container created (all states)

--namespace, --ns

Display namespace information

--filter, -f

Filter output based on conditions given

Valid filters are listed below:

Filter	Description
id	[ID] Container's ID
name	[Name] Container's name
label	[Key] or [Key=Value] Label assigned to a container
exited	[Int] Container's exit code
status	[Status] Container's status, e.g running, stopped
ancestor	[ImageName] Image or descendant used to create container
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

--help, -h

Print usage statement

EXAMPLES

sudo 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

sudo 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

sudo 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/

sudo 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

sudo 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

ps

Print a list of containers

SEE ALSO

podman(1), crio(8)

HISTORY

August 2017, Originally compiled by Urvashi Mohnani umohnani@redhat.com