Stop and remove podman containers

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Documented steps

  1. Stop a container by name or ID with podman stop <container> (default timeout is 10 seconds before forced kill).
  2. Stop every running, non-paused container with podman stop -a.
  3. Remove a stopped container with podman rm <container>, or remove several / filter-based with e.g. podman rm --filter status=exited.
  4. Force-remove running or paused containers with podman rm -f <container>; remove all containers regardless of state with podman rm -f -a.
  5. Clean up dependents with podman rm --depend <container>.

Known gotchas

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