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.
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.
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.
This guide shows how to access Podman remotely via the varlink interface with CLI tools and programmatically with python, go and rust.
This should work on Linux, MacOS and Windows 10.
The compatibility matrix shows which feature is supported on which OS in which language.
Note: replace
<podman-machine>in this guide with the IP or hostname of your Podman machine