Once launched, a container will continue to run until it is stopped via podman, or the command that was launched when the container was run exits. Running the following command on the host, for example, will cause the container to exit:
$ podman stop mycontainer
Alternatively, pressing the Ctrl-D keyboard sequence within the last remaining bash shell of the container would cause both the shell and container to exit. Once it has exited, the status of the container will change accordingly:
$ podman ps -a
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
4b49ddeb2987 docker.io/library/ubuntu:latest /bin/bash 6 minutes ago Exited (127) About a minute ago mycontainer
Although the container is no longer running, it still exists and contains all of the changes that were made to the configuration and file system. If you installed packages, made configuration changes...