Tear down pods and containers created by podman kube play using podman kube down
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Documented steps
Ensure the target resources were created by `podman kube play` from the same YAML you pass to kube down.
Run `podman kube down <file>.yml`. It stops and removes the pods/containers it recreates from that YAML, printing 'Pods stopped' and 'Pods removed'. Available for the same Dockerfile/play inputs as `podman kube play`.
Read from stdin with `cat pod.yml | podman kube down -`, or from URLs: `podman kube down https://podman.io/demo.yml`.
Remove one or more files/URLs in sequence: `podman kube down pod.yml service.yml configmap.yml`.
Volumes created by the original `kube play` stay intact unless you add `--force`.
Official docs: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-kube-down.1.html
Known gotchas
`kube down` does NOT work with a URL if the YAML at that URL has been changed or altered since the pods were created — pod/container names no longer match.
Use `--force` when you also want the volumes removed; without it volumes persist by design.
kube down only tears down pods it can recreate from the YAML — it is not a general 'delete everything' command.
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