--all,-a
Stop all running containers. This does not include paused containers.
--cidfile=file
Read container ID from the specified file and stop the container. Can be specified multiple times.
Command does not fail when file is missing and user specified --ignore.
--filter,-f=filter
Filter what containers are going to be stopped. 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 │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ exited │ [Int]Container'sexitcode │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ status │ [Status] Container's status: │
│ │ 'created', 'initialized', 'exited', │
│ │ 'paused', 'running', 'unknown' │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 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 │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ health │ [Status]healthyorunhealthy │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ pod │ [Pod] name or full or partial ID of │
│ │ pod │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ network │ [Network] name or full ID of network │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────┤
│ until │ [DateTime] Containers created before │
│ │ the given duration or time. │
└──────────┴───────────────────────────────────────┘
--ignore,-i
Ignore errors when specified containers are not in the container store. A user might have decided to
manually remove a container which leads to a failure during the ExecStop directive of a systemd service
referencing that container.
--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)
--time,-t=seconds
Seconds to wait before forcibly stopping the container. Use -1 for infinite wait.