Summary
In this chapter, we have completed a journey on container storage and Podman features offered to manipulate it. The material in this chapter is crucial to understanding how Podman manages both ephemeral and persistent data and provides best practices to users to manipulate their data.
In the first section, we learned why container storage matters and how it should be correctly managed both in single host and orchestrated, multi-host environments.
In the second section, we took a deep dive into container storage features and storage drivers, with a special focus on overlayfs.
In the third section, we learned how to copy files to and from a container. We also saw how changes could be committed to a new image.
The fourth section described the different possible scenarios of storage attached to a container, covering bind mounts, volumes, tmpfs, images, and devpts. This section was also a perfect fit to discuss SELinux interaction with storage management and see how...