Podman in Action The next generation of container engines Version 3

Podman in Action MEAP V03
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welcome
brief contents
Chapter 1: Podman: next generation container engine
	1.1 A brief overview of containers
		1.1.1 Container images: new way to ship software
		Container images lead to microservices
		1.1.2 Container image format
		1.1.3 Container standards
	1.2 Why Podman when you have Docker?
		1.2.1 Rootless containers
		1.2.2 Fork/Exec Model
		1.2.3 Daemon-less
		1.2.4 User Friendly Command Line
		1.2.5 Support for REST API
		1.2.6 Integration with systemd
		1.2.7 Pods
		1.2.8 Customizable Registries
		1.2.9 Multiple transports
		1.2.10 Complete customizability
		1.2.11 User Namespace support
	1.3 When not to use Podman
	1.4 Summary
Chapter 2: Command line
	2.1 Working with containers
		2.1.1 Exploring containers
		2.1.2 Running the containerized application
		Favorite podman run options
		2.1.3 Stopping containers
		Favorite podman stop options
		2.1.4 Use the man podman-stop command for information about all options.
		2.1.5 Starting containers
		Favorite podman start options
		2.1.6 Listing containers
		Favorite podman ps options
		2.1.7 Inspecting containers
		Favorite podman inspect options
		2.1.8 Removing containers
		Favorite podman rm options
		2.1.9 Execing into a container
		Favorite podman exec options
		2.1.10 Creating an image from a container
		Favorite podman commit options
	2.2 Working with container images
		2.2.1 Difference between a container and an image
		2.2.2 Listing images
		Favorite podman images options
		2.2.3 Inspecting images
		Favorite podman image inspect option
		2.2.4 Pushing images
		Container transports
		2.2.5 podman login (Logging into a container registry)
		Favorite podman login and logout options
		2.2.6 Tagging images
		2.2.7 Removing images
		Favorite podman image prune options
		2.2.8 Pulling images
		Short names and container registries
		Favorite podman pull options
		2.2.9 Searching for images
		Favorite podman search options
		2.2.10 Mounting images
	2.3 Building images
		2.3.1 Format of a Containerfile/Dockerfile
		Adding content to an image
		Documenting how to use the image
		Committing the image
		2.3.2 Automating the building of our application
		Favorite podman build option
	2.4 Summary
Chapter 3: Volumes
	3.1 Using volumes with containers
		3.1.1 Named volumes
		3.1.2 Volume mount options
		The U volume option
		The SELinux volume options
		3.1.3 podman run --mount command option
	3.2 Summary
Chapter 4: Pods
	4.1 Running Pods
		4.1.1 Creating a pod
		4.1.2 Adding a container to a pod
		4.1.3 Starting a pod
		Favorite podman pod start options
		4.1.4 Stopping a pod
		Favorite podman pod stop options
		4.1.5 Listing pods
		Favorite podman pod list options
		4.1.6 Removing pods
		Favorite podman pod rm options
	4.2 Summary
Chapter 5: Customization and configuration files
	5.1 Configuration files for storage
		5.1.1 Storage location
		5.1.2 Storage drivers
		Overlay storage options
	5.2 Configuration files for registries
		5.2.1 registries.conf
		Blocking pulling from container registries.
	5.3 Configuration files for engines
	5.4 System configuration files
	5.5 Summary
Chapter 6: Rootless containers
	6.1 How does rootless Podman work?
		6.1.1 Images contain content owned by multiple user identifiers (UIDs)
		User namespace
		Mount namespace
		User namespace + mount namespace
	6.2 Rootless Podman under the covers
		6.2.1 Pulling the image
		6.2.2 Creating a container
		6.2.3 Setting up the network
		6.2.4 Starting the container monitor - conmon
		6.2.5 Launching the OCI runtime
		6.2.6 The containerized application runs until completion
	6.3 Summary
Appendix A: Podman-related container tools
	A.1 Skopeo
	A.2 Buildah
		A.2.1 Creating a working container from a base image
		A.2.2 Adding data to a working container
		A.2.3 Running commands in a working container
		A.2.4 Adding content to a working container directly from the host
		A.2.5 Configuring a working container
		A.2.6 Creating an image from a working container
		A.2.7 Pushing an image to a container registry
		A.2.8 Building an image from Containerfiles
		A.2.9 Buildah as a library
	A.3 CRI-O: Container Runtime Interface for OCI Containers
Appendix B: OCI runtimes
	B.1 runc
	B.2 crun
	B.3 kata
	B.4 gVisor
Appendix C: Getting Podman
	C.1 Installing Podman
		C.1.1 MacOS
		Homebrew
		C.1.2 Windows
		Windows Remote Client
		Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2.0
		C.1.3 Arch Linux & Manjaro Linux
		C.1.4 CentOS
		C.1.5 Debian
		C.1.6 Fedora
		C.1.7 Fedora-CoreOS, Fedora SilverBlue
		C.1.8 Gentoo
		C.1.9 OpenEmbedded
		C.1.10 openSUSE
		C.1.11 openSUSE Kubic
		C.1.12 Raspberry Pi OS arm64
		C.1.13 Red Hat Enterprise Linux
		RHEL7
		RHEL8
		RHEL9 and beyond
		C.1.14 Ubuntu
	C.2 Building from source code
	C.3 Podman Desktop
	C.4 Summary
Appendix D: Contributing to Podman
	D.1 Joining the community
	D.2 Podman on github.com
Appendix E: Podman on macOS
	E.1 Podman on macOS
		E.1.1 Using podman machine
		Podman machine init
		Podman machine SSH configuration
		Starting the VM
		Stopping the VM
	E.2 Summary
Appendix F: Podman on Windows
	F.1 First Steps
		F.1.1 Prerequisites
		F.1.2 Installing Podman
		Automatic WSL installation
	F.2 Using podman machine
		F.2.1 Podman machine init
		F.2.2 Podman machine SSH configuration
		F.2.3 Starting the WSL2 instance
		F.2.4 Using Podman machine commands
		F.2.5 Stopping the WSL2 instance
		F.2.6 Listing machines
		F.2.7 Using Podman at the WSL prompt
		F.2.8 Updating Fedora
		F.2.9 Advanced Stopping and Restarting
	F.3 Summary