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| author | OpenShift Merge Robot <openshift-merge-robot@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-09-01 23:41:53 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-09-01 23:41:53 +0200 |
| commit | 475cac4432a72052a000e9be91cd721d03e01eb8 (patch) | |
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Merge pull request #15601 from edsantiago/docs_dedup_name
[CI:DOCS] Man pages: refactor common options: --name
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diff --git a/docs/source/markdown/options/name.container.md b/docs/source/markdown/options/name.container.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0c3df6ef1 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/source/markdown/options/name.container.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +#### **--name**=*name* + +Assign a name to the container. + +The operator can identify a container in three ways: + +- UUID long identifier (“f78375b1c487e03c9438c729345e54db9d20cfa2ac1fc3494b6eb60872e74778”); +- UUID short identifier (“f78375b1c487”); +- Name (“jonah”). + +Podman generates a UUID for each container, and if a name is not assigned +to the container with **--name** then it will generate a random +string name. The name is useful any place you need to identify a container. +This works for both background and foreground containers. |