podman/docs/source/markdown/options/name.container.md

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--name=name

Assign a name to the container.

The operator can identify a container in three ways:

• UUID long identifier (“f78375b1c487e03c9438c729345e54db9d20cfa2ac1fc3494b6eb60872e74778”);
• UUID short identifier (“f78375b1c487”);
• Name (“jonah”).

Podman generates a UUID for each container, and if a name is not assigned to the container with --name then it will generate a random string name. The name is useful any place you need to identify a container. This works for both background and foreground containers.