Podman v2 development update

By Brent Baude GitHub​

In the last few days, the Podman development team has been working to release Podman-1.9.0. This is likely to be the last Podman-1.X release before we transition to Podman v2.x. We have been working since November 2019 to make a significant overhaul of Podman’s architecture. And if we did our job correctly, most casual Podman users will not notice a difference. We will continue to investigate and fix issues in Podman-1.x versions but severity of the bug and priority will dictate our response.

What some users who follow upstream development may notice is that while we make the final push to a 2.x release, our GitHub repository will look drastically different. For some period of time, certain Podman commands, if built based on upstream, may not function exactly as expected nor even exist. We already know we will need to disable some of our CI testing framework as part of this final push until we have a more complete Podman v2.x. We will not release Podman 2.0 until we are satisfied that it is ready. While upstream development will be impacted by the announced migration to Podman v2.x, you can still open issues and contribute pull requests to the project.

As has been the standard with our project, we will remain transparent in our development activities and try to keep our community appraised of our progress. We are excited for some of the technical advancements that Podman v2.x will give our users. Subsequent blog posts will be written on those advancements and why they matter to our users.

In this video, Kirill Shirinkin will show how to use Podman to build container images and run Java applications in containers with systemd. We are going to learn why we should at least try alternatives to Docker, how container runtime landscape changed and how Podman is different and in certain ways better than Docker. Watch now.

Dockerless: Build and Run Containers with Podman and systemd​

By Kirill Shirinkin GitHub​

In this video, Kirill Shirinkin will show how to use Podman to build container images and run Java applications in containers with systemd.

We are going to learn why we should at least try alternatives to Docker, how container runtime landscape changed and how Podman is different and in certain ways better than Docker.

Watch now.

Managing Podman pods with pods-compose

By Balázs Németh GitHub​

Managing Podman pods with pods-compose makes your move to Podman easier. Balázs Németh already converted his docker-compose services to pods with Podman, however some features were missing, up until now. Let’s meet pods-compose.

Managing Podman pods with pods-compose makes your move to Podman easier. Balázs Németh already converted his docker-compose services to pods with Podman, however some features were missing, up until now. Let’s meet pods-compose.

Convert docker-compose services to pods with Podman

By Balázs Németh GitHub​

How to deploy pods with Podman when you only need a single-host system and not a complete Kubernetes. Check the blog post Convert your docker-compose services to pods with Podman by Balázs Németh to see how it can be done.

How to deploy pods with Podman when you only need a single-host system and not a complete Kubernetes. Check the blog post Convert your docker-compose services to pods with Podman by Balázs Németh to see how it can be done.

Pulling podman images from a container repository

By Tom Sweeney GitHub​

Tom Sweeney has another blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site this time he's writing about Pulling podman images from a container repository. Learn the different varieties of pull that the podman build command can use to speed up or further secure your environment in this post.

Sascha Grunert has written a tutorial explaining how to use Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) keys to secure your container images stored in a container repository. Signing container images is nothing magical and can drastically enhance security to mitigate man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. Read all about it here.

What happens behind the scenes of a rootless Podman container?

By Dan Walsh GitHub​

Dan Walsh along with Matt Heon have a blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site, What happens behind the scenes of a rootless Podman container?. If you ever wanted to know what happens under the covers of a rootless container, this is the article for you!