A Podman API v1.0 and libpod.conf Removal Notice has just been posted. The Podman v1.0 API based on the varlink library and the libpod.conf file have both been removed from upstream Podman. Please see the notice for more details.
On August 1, 2020, the Podman team posted a Podman API v1.0 Deprecation and Removal notice. As noted in that document, the Podman API v1.0 relied on the varlink library to handle the underlying client/server calls from the Podman client to the host where the Podman service was running. The support for the varlink library was greatly reduced in the spring of 2020. This led the Podman team to investigate the use of other client/server technologies and it was decided to develop a RESTful API for Podman using the native Go libraries.
Ashley Cui recently joined our team at Red Hat and just wrote her first ever blog post that is now on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site Tick-tock. Does your container know what time it is?. In this timely post, Ashley walks you through setting the timezone within a container using the --tz option. Just prior to this posting, I had answered a very similar question for someone. This is a really good and quick blog, and I'm sure the first of many for Ashley.
Do you want to know more about Rootless containers, process separation, and OpenSCAP? If you're like many, a video is a better learning device than a blog post. Well you're in luck, Brian Smith just landed a blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site Container video series: Rootless containers, process separation, and OpenSCAP with a number of blog posts on the subject, many featuring Podman.
As a kid, I was fascinated by space flight. If I couldn't be a fireman like my father, I wanted to be an astronaut. Of course I had to have a Major Matt Mason figure so I could fly him around the house and then land him softly in a jury-rigged parachute in my wading pool. Then of course the whole Apollo 13 drama had me riveted, and when the movie came out years later, I fell in love with this line in the movie, "Let's work the problem people. Let's not make things worse by guessing." by Ed Harris who played Gene Kranz the "vested" flight director.
Four engineers at IBM and Red Hat, JJ Asghar, Brian Tannous, Jason Dobies and Cedric Clyburn spent some time in a stream learning about Podman, Buildah, Skopeo from the ground up in this video blog post. Check out the video to get a great introduction to the tools.
Nathan Lager just landed a blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site Moving from docker-compose to Podman pods. In the post, Nathan talks about ins and outs of the migration process.
Valentin Rothberg just landed a blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site Improved systemd integration with Podman 2.0. In the post, Valentin talks about how systemd in Podman v2.0 is even more tightly integrated than it was in prior versions.
The Podman API v1.0 relied on the varlink library to handle the underlying client/server calls from the Podman client to the host where the Podman service was running. About one year ago, the Podman team was notified that the focus on the varlink library was being greatly reduced and there would be no further development and little support for it from the varlink library team. This led the Podman team to investigate the use of other client/server technologies and it was decided to develop a RESTful API for Podman using the native Go libraries.
A Podman API v1.0 Deprecation and Removal Notice has just been posted. The Podman v1.0 API based on the varlink library has been deprecated and will soon be removed from Podman in favor of the new Podmand v2.0 RESTful API. Please see the notice for more details.