podman-pod-pause(1) General Commands Manual podman-pod-pause(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

podman-pod-pause - Pause one or more pods

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**podman pod pause** \[*options*] *pod* ...

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

Pauses all the running processes in the containers of one or more pods. You may use pod IDs or names as input.

# [OPTIONS](#OPTIONS)

## **--all**, **-a**

Pause all pods.

## **--latest**, **-l**

Instead of providing the pod name or ID, pause the last created pod. (This option is not available with the remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines)

# [EXAMPLES](#EXAMPLES)

Pause a pod with a given name:

```
$ podman pod pause mywebserverpod
```

Pause a pod with a given ID:

```
$ podman pod pause 860a4b23
```

Pause all pods

```
$ podman pod pause --all
817973d45404da08f1fe393a13c8eeb0948f4a259d8835f083370b4a63cb0431
0793d692719c8ef1f983fd29d7568e817c5a8e865e2b3925201a75dce24cfe80
```

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**podman(1)**](/man/enterprise-packages/podman-doc-6.0/podman.1), [**podman-pod(1)**](/man/enterprise-packages/podman-doc-6.0/podman-pod.1), [**podman-pod-unpause(1)**](/man/enterprise-packages/podman-doc-6.0/podman-pod-unpause.1), [**podman-pause(1)**](/man/enterprise-packages/podman-doc-6.0/podman-pause.1)

# [HISTORY](#HISTORY)

July 2018, Originally compiled by Peter Hunt pehunt@redhat.com ⟨mailto:pehunt@redhat.com⟩

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Document: podman-pod-pause(1) from podman-doc-6.0 6.0.2-r15 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/containers/podman