From c63830166c31e7760f5bf4120cd774dda6683c60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ed Santiago Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:32:49 -0600 Subject: Man pages: refactor common options: --name Only for podman-create and -run, unfortunately: all the others are too different, and can't easily be combined. I went with the podman-run version because it was most recently updated in #5192. Signed-off-by: Ed Santiago --- docs/source/markdown/options/name.container.md | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/source/markdown/options/name.container.md (limited to 'docs/source/markdown/options') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf