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podman run — Run a command in a new Podman container. More information: <https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdow

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Problem

How to use the podman run command: Run a command in a new Podman container. More information: <https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-run.1.html>.

Solution

podman run — Run a command in a new Podman container. More information: <https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-run.1.html>.

Run command in a new container from a tagged image:

podman run {{image:tag}} {{command}}

Run command in a new container in background and display its ID:

podman run {{[-d|--detach]}} {{image:tag}} {{command}}

Run command in a one-off container in interactive mode and pseudo-TTY:

podman run --rm {{[-it|--interactive --tty]}} {{image:tag}} {{command}}

Run command in a new container with passed environment variables:

podman run {{[-e|--env]}} '{{variable}}={{value}}' {{[-e|--env]}} {{variable}} {{image:tag}} {{command}}

Run command in a new container with bind mounted volumes:

podman run {{[-v|--volume]}} /{{path/to/host_path}}:/{{path/to/container_path}} {{image:tag}} {{command}}

Run command in a new container with published ports:

podman run {{[-p|--publish]}} {{host_port}}:{{container_port}} {{image:tag}} {{command}}

Run command in a new container overwriting the entrypoint of the image:

podman run --entrypoint {{command}} {{image:tag}}

Run command in a new container connecting it to a network:

podman run --network {{network}} {{image:tag}}

Code Snippets

Run command in a new container from a tagged image

podman run {{image:tag}} {{command}}

Run command in a new container in background and display its ID

podman run {{[-d|--detach]}} {{image:tag}} {{command}}

Run command in a one-off container in interactive mode and pseudo-TTY

podman run --rm {{[-it|--interactive --tty]}} {{image:tag}} {{command}}

Run command in a new container with passed environment variables

podman run {{[-e|--env]}} '{{variable}}={{value}}' {{[-e|--env]}} {{variable}} {{image:tag}} {{command}}

Run command in a new container with bind mounted volumes

podman run {{[-v|--volume]}} /{{path/to/host_path}}:/{{path/to/container_path}} {{image:tag}} {{command}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/podman run

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