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Podman for DevOps

By : Alessandro Arrichiello, Gianni Salinetti
Book Image

Podman for DevOps

By: Alessandro Arrichiello, Gianni Salinetti

Overview of this book

As containers have become the new de facto standard for packaging applications and their dependencies, understanding how to implement, build, and manage them is now an essential skill for developers, system administrators, and SRE/operations teams. Podman and its companion tools Buildah and Skopeo make a great toolset to boost the development, execution, and management of containerized applications. Starting with the basic concepts of containerization and its underlying technology, this book will help you get your first container up and running with Podman. You'll explore the complete toolkit and go over the development of new containers, their lifecycle management, troubleshooting, and security aspects. Together with Podman, the book illustrates Buildah and Skopeo to complete the tools ecosystem and cover the complete workflow for building, releasing, and managing optimized container images. Podman for DevOps provides a comprehensive view of the full-stack container technology and its relationship with the operating system foundations, along with crucial topics such as networking, monitoring, and integration with systemd, docker-compose, and Kubernetes. By the end of this DevOps book, you'll have developed the skills needed to build and package your applications inside containers as well as to deploy, manage, and integrate them with system services.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: From Theory to Practice: Running Containers with Podman
7
Section 2: Building Containers from Scratch with Buildah
12
Section 3: Managing and Integrating Containers Securely

Running a local container registry

Most companies and organizations adopt enterprise-grade registries to rely on secure and resilient solutions for their container image storage. Most enterprise registries also offer advanced features such as role-based access control (RBAC), an image vulnerability scanner, mirroring, geo-replication, and high availability, becoming the default choice for production and mission-critical environments.

However, sometimes it is very useful to run a simple local registry, for example, in development environments or training labs. Local registries can also be helpful in disconnected environments to mirror main public or private registries.

This section aims to illustrate how to run a simple local registry and how to apply basic configuration settings.

Running a containerized registry

Like every application, a local registry can be installed on the host by its administrators. Alternatively, a commonly preferred approach is to run the registry...