This document is a WORK IN PROGRESS.
This is just a quick personal cheat sheet: treat its contents with caution!

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Podman

Podman is a utility provided as part of the libpod library. It can be used to create and maintain containers.

Info

• See Containers vs. Virtual Machines (VMs): What’s the Difference?

Reference(s)

• https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/index.html
• https://github.com/containers/podman
• https://podman.io/getting-started/
• https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/troubleshooting.md
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Podman
• https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Podman
• https://www.howtoforge.com/getting-started-with-podman-on-rocky-linux/

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Table of contents

• Install
• Config
• Use
  • Troubleshooting

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Install

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# apt add podman

# apt install podman

# dnf install podman

# emerge -a app-containers/podman

on NixOSon non-NixOS

# nix-env -iA nixos.podman

# nix-env -iA nixpkgs.podman

# pacman -S podman

# yum install podman

# xbps-install -S podman

# zypper install podman

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Config

Configuration files for configuring how containers behave are located at /usr/share/containers/. You must copy necessary files to /etc/containers before edit. To configure the network bridge interface used by Podman see /etc/cni/net.d/87-podman-bridge.conflist.

# /etc/containers/registries.conf
[[registry]]
location = "docker.io"

[[registry]]
location = "registry.fedoraproject.org"

[[registry]]
location = "registry.access.redhat.com"

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Use

$ podman info

TODO

Troubleshooting

See https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/troubleshooting.md

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