podman-pause - Pause one or more containers

       Pauses all the processes in one or more containers.  You may use container IDs or names as input.

       Pause specified container:

       podman pause mywebserver

       Pause container by partial container ID:

       podman pause 860a4b23

       Pause all running containers:

       podman pause --all

       Pause container using ID specified in given files:

       podman pause --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1
       podman pause --cidfile /home/user/cidfile-1 --cidfile ./cidfile-2

       Pause the latest container. (This option is not available with the remote Podman  client,  including  Mac
       and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines):

       podman pause --latest

       September 2017, Originally compiled by Dan Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com ⟨mailto:dwalsh@redhat.com⟩

                                                                                                 podman-pause(1)

       podman-pause - Pause one or more containers

--all,-a
       Pause all running containers.

   --cidfile=file
       Read container ID from the specified file and pause the container.  Can be specified multiple times.

   --filter,-f=filter
       Filter  what  containers  pause.   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.           │
       └──────────┴───────────────────────────────────────┘

   --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)

podman(1), podman-unpause(1)

podmanpause [options] [container...]

       podmancontainerpause [options] [container...]