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diff --git a/pkg/parallel/ctr/ctr.go b/pkg/parallel/ctr/ctr.go
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+package ctr
+
+import (
+	"context"
+
+	"github.com/containers/podman/v2/libpod"
+	"github.com/containers/podman/v2/pkg/parallel"
+	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+)
+
+// ContainerOp performs the given function on the given set of
+// containers, using a number of parallel threads.
+// If no error is returned, each container specified in ctrs will have an entry
+// in the resulting map; containers with no error will be set to nil.
+func ContainerOp(ctx context.Context, ctrs []*libpod.Container, applyFunc func(*libpod.Container) error) (map[*libpod.Container]error, error) {
+	// We could use a sync.Map but given Go's lack of generic I'd rather
+	// just use a lock on a normal map...
+	// The expectation is that most of the time is spent in applyFunc
+	// anyways.
+	var (
+		errMap = make(map[*libpod.Container]<-chan error)
+	)
+
+	for _, ctr := range ctrs {
+		c := ctr
+		logrus.Debugf("Starting parallel job on container %s", c.ID())
+		errChan := parallel.Enqueue(ctx, func() error {
+			return applyFunc(c)
+		})
+		errMap[c] = errChan
+	}
+
+	finalErr := make(map[*libpod.Container]error)
+	for ctr, errChan := range errMap {
+		err := <-errChan
+		finalErr[ctr] = err
+	}
+
+	return finalErr, nil
+}