Dan Walsh has another blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site this time he's writing on how to Speed up container builds with overlay mounts. In the article Dan walks you through speeding up builds for multiple distributions by sharing the host's metadata.
Dan Walsh has another blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site this time he's writing about Exploring additional image stores in Podman. In the article Dan shows you how to store container images on shares, permitting the images to be accessed over the network.
Tom Sweeney has another blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site this time he's writing about Building images using Podman and cron. In the article Tom talks about how necessity became the mother of invention and cron was put into use to build container images on a regular schedule.
The GitHub repository for the Podman project has been moved from github.com/containers/libpod to github.com/containers/podman. More details from Matt Heon in this blog post.
Matt Heon talks about the compatibility of the new Podman REST API and Docker's API is this blog post.
Podman v2.0.0 launched recently, and with it the REST API. We’ve seen a great deal of excitement with this new API because of what it will enable - enabling applications and automation to use Podman when the could previously only use Docker. As you may know, Podman’s REST API is split into two halves: one providing a Docker-compatible API, and a Libpod API providing support for Podman’s unique features such as pods. We would love for all projects to eventually grow to support for our native Libpod API, but this will take time (and may be impossible for older, no longer maintained projects). As such, we need to talk about the Compatibility API and how it can be used.
Announcing Podman v2.0!
Podman v2.0 is here! Brent Baude talks about the major highlights of the new release, including the new RESTful API, remote client improvements, Auto-update functionality and systemd integration improvements. More details in the announcement post.
If you have been following the upstream development of Podman, you have undoubtedly seen us refer to “2.0” or “Podman 2”. Today, we have made the first release of Podman 2 upstream. The release notes highlight many of the newest features but we wanted to call out some specific things in this blog and expand on them.
The local Podman v2 client is complete. It is passing all of its rootful and rootless system and integration tests.
The CI/CID tests have been re-enabled upstream and are run with each pull request submission. We are now hard at work finishing up some of the core podman-remote functions. Once those functions are complete, we can then begin to run our podman-remote system and integration tests to catch any regressions.
More details in the announcement post.
A few weeks ago, we made an announcement about the development of Podman V2. In the announcement, we mentioned that the state of upstream code would be jumbled for a while and that we would be temporarily disabling many of our CI/CD tests. The upstream development team has been hard at work, and we are starting to see that work pay off.
Today, we are very excited to announce:
The local Podman v2 client is complete. It is passing all of its rootful and rootless system and integration tests.
The CI/CID tests have been re-enabled upstream and are run with each pull request submission. We are now hard at work finishing up some of the core podman-remote functions. Once those functions are complete, we can then begin to run our podman-remote system and integration tests to catch any regressions.
We have re-enabled the autobuilds for Podman v2 in Fedora rawhide. As mentioned earlier, the Podman remote client is not complete, so that binary is temporarily being removed from the RPM. It will be re-added when the remote client is complete. As a corollary, the Windows and OS/X clients are also not being compiled or tested. This will occur once the remote client for Linux is complete.
We encourage you to pull the latest upstream Podman code and exercise it with your use cases to help us protect against regressions from Podman v1. We hope to make a full Podman v2.0 release in several weeks, once we are confident it is stable. We look forward to hearing what you think, and please do not hesitate to raise issues and comments on this in our GitHub repository, our Freenode IRC channel #podman, or to the Podman mailing list.
We’re very excited to bring Podman v2.0 to you as it offers a lot more flexibility through it’s new REST API interface and adds several enhancements to the existing commands. If your project builds on top of Podman, we would especially love to have you test this new version out so we can ensure complete compatibility with Podman v1.0 and address any issues found ASAP.
Note: This announcement was first released to the Podman mailing list. If you are not yet a member of that community, please join us by sending an email to podman-join@lists.podman.io with the word “subscribe” as the title.