Add podman run --timeout option

This option allows users to specify the maximum amount of time to run
before conmon sends the kill signal to the container.

Fixes: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/6412

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cmd/podman/common/create.go b/cmd/podman/common/create.go
index d496ae308..c3d00d293 100644
--- a/cmd/podman/common/create.go
+++ b/cmd/podman/common/create.go
@@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ func DefineCreateFlags(cmd *cobra.Command, cf *ContainerCLIOpts) {
 	createFlags.UintVar(
 		&cf.StopTimeout,
 		stopTimeoutFlagName, containerConfig.Engine.StopTimeout,
-		"Timeout (in seconds) to stop a container. Default is 10",
+		"Timeout (in seconds) that containers stopped by user command have to exit. If exceeded, the container will be forcibly stopped via SIGKILL.",
 	)
 	_ = cmd.RegisterFlagCompletionFunc(stopTimeoutFlagName, completion.AutocompleteNone)
 
@@ -697,6 +697,14 @@ func DefineCreateFlags(cmd *cobra.Command, cf *ContainerCLIOpts) {
 	)
 	_ = cmd.RegisterFlagCompletionFunc(systemdFlagName, AutocompleteSystemdFlag)
 
+	timeoutFlagName := "timeout"
+	createFlags.UintVar(
+		&cf.Timeout,
+		timeoutFlagName, 0,
+		"Maximum length of time a container is allowed to run. The container will be killed automatically after the time expires.",
+	)
+	_ = cmd.RegisterFlagCompletionFunc(timeoutFlagName, completion.AutocompleteNone)
+
 	tmpfsFlagName := "tmpfs"
 	createFlags.StringArrayVar(
 		&cf.TmpFS,