List and filter running and stopped containers with podman ps
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Documented steps
Run podman ps to list running containers; add --all (-a) to include stopped, exited, and created containers.
Filter with --filter/-f: for example status=running, status=exited, name=app-*, id=<prefix>, ancestor=<image>, network=<net>, volume=<vol>, health=healthy.
Add --size/-s for file sizes, --no-trunc to avoid truncating IDs, and --quiet/-q for numeric IDs only.
Format the output with --format "{{.ID}} {{.Image}} {{.Status}} {{.Names}}" or --format json.
Use --external to show containers created by Buildah or CRI-O that share the containers storage (marked with a storage/buildah status).
Known gotchas
Repeated same-key filters are inclusive while different keys are exclusive; the label filter is exclusive.
--latest/-l selects the most recently created container but is unavailable on the remote client (macOS/Windows excluding WSL2) and may match another user's container.
--watch refreshes the output at an interval; --sync forces a state sync with the OCI runtime when the state looks inconsistent.
Podman shares image/container storage with Buildah and CRI-O, so external containers appear only when --external is passed.
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