Starting a Container Instance

Start a container instance.

1. Navigate to the Container Instances list page. If you need help finding the list page, see Listing Container Instances.
2. Select the name of the container instance that you're interested in.
3. From the Actions menu, select Start.
  
  The container instance and all its containers start.
Use the oci container-instances container-instance start command to start a container instance. To use this command, replace id with your resource OCID.
```
export 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: