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@@ -825,6 +825,12 @@ If container is running in **\-\-read-only** mode, then mount a read-write tmpfs
If another container with the same name already exists, replace and remove it. The default is **false**.
+#### **\-\-requires**=**container**
+
+Specify one or more requirements.
+A requirement is a dependency container that will be started before this container.
+Containers can be specified by name or ID, with multiple containers being separated by commas.
+
#### **\-\-restart**=*policy*
Restart policy to follow when containers exit.
@@ -1612,6 +1618,24 @@ $ podman run --tz=Asia/Shanghai alpine date
$ podman run --tz=US/Eastern alpine date
```
+### Adding dependency containers
+
+The first container, container1, is not started initially, but must be running before container2 will start.
+The `podman run` command will start the container automatically before starting container2.
+
+```
+$ podman create --name container1 -t -i fedora bash
+$ podman run --name container2 --requires container1 -t -i fedora bash
+```
+
+Multiple containers can be required.
+
+```
+$ podman create --name container1 -t -i fedora bash
+$ podman create --name container2 -t -i fedora bash
+$ podman run --name container3 --requires container1,container2 -t -i fedora bash
+```
+
### Rootless Containers
Podman runs as a non root user on most systems. This feature requires that a new enough version of **shadow-utils**
@@ -1657,7 +1681,7 @@ b
NOTE: Use the environment variable `TMPDIR` to change the temporary storage location of downloaded container images. Podman defaults to use `/var/tmp`.
## SEE ALSO
-**podman**(1), **podman-save**(1), **podman-ps**(1), **podman-attach**(1), **podman-pod-create**(1), **podman-port**(1), **podman-kill**(1), **podman-stop**(1),
+**podman**(1), **podman-save**(1), **podman-ps**(1), **podman-attach**(1), **podman-pod-create**(1), **podman-port**(1), **podman-start**(1), **podman-kill**(1), **podman-stop**(1),
**podman-generate-systemd**(1) **podman-rm**(1), **subgid**(5), **subuid**(5), **containers.conf**(5), **systemd.unit**(5), **setsebool**(8), **slirp4netns**(1), **fuse-overlayfs**(1), **proc**(5)**.
## HISTORY