Starting a Container Instance

Start a container instance.

1. Open the navigation menu and click Developer Services. Under Containers & Artifacts, click Container Instances.
2. Under List Scope, select the compartment that contains the container instance.
3. Click the name of the container instance that you're interested in.
4. Click Start.
  
  The container instance and all containers in it start.
Use the oci container-instances container-instance start command to start a container instance.
To use this command, replace id with your resource.
```
$ id=ocid1.computecontainerinstance.oc1.iad.example
$ oci container-instances container-instance start --container-instance-id "$id"
```
For a complete list of flags and variable options for CLI commands, see the Command Line Reference.
For information about using the API and signing requests, see REST API documentation and Security Credentials. For information about SDKs, see Software Development Kits and Command Line Interface.

To manage the lifecycle state of container instances, use these operations: