# Container shell access

### Opening a Shell

When viewing a workload, click on the ***...***** button** (or right click) on any pod, and then click **Open Shell** to open a new shell session with a pod's container. If there are many containers, Infra App will show a list of containers to choose from.

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Once connected, this session will persist until you close it or change clusters in Infra App.

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To close the shell, simply click on the **X** button in the top right of the terminal view. 

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#### Not all containers can open a shell

Not all containers include files required to open shell access. You may receive an error such as `OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed.` 
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