podman-kill - Kill the main process in one or more containers
podman kill [options] [container ...]
podman container kill [options] [container ...]
The main process inside each container specified will be sent SIGKILL, or any signal specified with option --signal.
Signal all running and paused containers.
Read container ID from the specified file and kill the container. Can be specified multiple times.
Instead of providing the container name or ID, use the last created container. If you use methods other than Podman to run containers such as CRI-O, the last started container could be from either of those methods. (This option is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines)
Signal to send to the container. For more information on Linux signals, refer to signal(7). The default is SIGKILL.
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
podman(1), podman-stop(1)
September 2017, Originally compiled by Brent Baude bbaude@redhat.com <mailto:bbaude@redhat.com>