podman-pod-exists(1)

podman-pod-exists1

Check if a pod exists in local storage

Usage

podman pod exists pod

Overview

podman pod exists checks if a pod exists in local storage. The ID or Name of the pod may be used as input. Podman returns an exit code of 0 when the pod is found. A 1 is returned otherwise. An exit code of 125 indicates there was an issue accessing the local storage.

Examples

Check if specified pod exists in local storage (the pod does actually exist):

$ sudo podman pod exists web; echo $?
0

Check if specified pod exists in local storage (the pod does not actually exist):

$ sudo podman pod exists backend; echo $?
1

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

History

December 2018, Originally compiled by Brent Baude (bbaude at redhat dot com)

From podman 6.1.4-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.