Podman

Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on Linux.

Podman was included in May 2019 in RHEL 8.0 and in RHEL 7.6 Beta

Install

Ubuntu

18.04, 19.04 and 19.10.

. /etc/os-release
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/kubic:/libcontainers:/stable/xUbuntu_${VERSION_ID}/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devel:kubic:libcontainers:stable.list"
curl -L https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/kubic:/libcontainers:/stable/xUbuntu_${VERSION_ID}/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update -qq
sudo apt-get -qq -y install podman

Mac OS

brew cask install podman

Basic Commands

http://docs.podman.io/en/latest/Commands.html

• podman attach - Attach to a running container
• podman build - Build a container image using a Containerfile
• podman exec -it <Container ID> /bin/bash
• podman play kube
• podman ps
• podman pod
• podman pod stats
• podman pod list
• podman image mount (September 2020)
• podman images
• podman info
• podman inspect
• podman kill
• podman load
• podman logs
• podman pull
• podman run
• podman version
• podman generate kube
• podman volume ls

Activities

• Read running rootless Podman as a non-root user https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/rootless-podman-makes-sense
• Read documentation how to install it: https://podman.io/getting-started/installation

Related terms

• Fedora CoreOS
• Podman now has support in RHEL 8.4 for auto-updating container images

See also

• Podman, containers, podman ps, podman attach, libpod.conf, podman pull, podman info, podman logs, podman kill, podman images, podman image mount, Podman releases/Changelog, podman login, podman run, podman exec, podman play
• Containers, OCI: Docker (dockerd), containerd, runc, Podman, buildah, skopeo, lxd, Container Registry, Service mesh, Windows Server containers, Containerpilot, CoreOS, CAdvisor, Containers networking, Container scanning, cosign, CRI, CRI-O, initContainers, Sidecar container, Container images, latest
• Red Hat OpenShift: Podman, Minishift, releases, Red Hat CodeReady Containers, OKD, OpenShift Virtualization, oc, OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), Hypershift, apps.openshift.io

https://podman.io/

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/building_running_and_managing_containers/index#podman

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/08/29/intro-to-podman/

https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/tag/v2.1.0-rc1