Manage Podman containers with systemd

By Emilien Macchi GitHub​

I wrote a blog post about how we manage Podman containers with systemd in OpenStack TripleO.

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Deploy OpenStack TripleO Undercloud Podman containers

By Emilien Macchi GitHub​

I wrote a blog post about how we deploy OpenStack TripleO Undercloud with Podman containers.

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SELinux blocks Podman container from talking to libvirt

By Dan Walsh GitHub​

I wrote a SELinux blog on running a container with Podman. The talks explains why SELinux blocks the connection to the libvirt socket. It then goes on to explain how to setup the container to allow the communication.

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Why can’t I delete storage files created by non-root Podman?

By Dan Walsh GitHub​

Cool things you can do with Podman​

When running Podman as root, the default location for storage is /var/lib/containers/storage. Of course, users cannot use this directory when running as non root, so Podman creates the storage by default in $HOME/.local/share/containers.

Replacing Docker with Podman

By Dan Walsh GitHub​

At the "All Systems Go!" conference on September 28-30, 2018 in Berlin Germany, Dan Walsh gave a talk on how you can replace docker with podman and not skip a beat. The talk was taped and can be viewed here.

The slides in PDF format are here.

Pulling content directly from the Docker Daemon...

By Dan Walsh GitHub​

Cool things you can do with Podman.​

I recently received a bug report about some huge container images not working correctly in Docker. So I suggested to the reporter that they try them with Podman. He responded that he saw the images with docker images, but did not see them with podman images.

I explained to him that the Docker image and container database are separate from the Podman image and container database. I told him he would have to pull the images into Podman. Then I decided to try a cool feature of Podman, where I could pull images directly out of the Docker daemon.

Using systemd to control the startup of Podman containers

By Emilien Macchi GitHub​

Podman wasn't designed to manage containers startup order, dependency checking or failed container recovery. In fact, this job can be done by external tools and this blog post describes how we can use the systemd initialization service to work with Podman containers.

Python3 support for Podman

By Jhon Honce GitHub​

You’ve learned of Podman and all it’s coolness for running OCI-based containers, but you need a solution that is repeatable and scripted. Rather than just executing Podman commands, you want a stable API to call into and not need to screen scrape the output.

We heard you and now provide a Python package, python3-podman. This package allows you to access the facilities of a Podman service with #nobigfatdaemons.