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Podman for DevOps

By : Alessandro Arrichiello, Gianni Salinetti
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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

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "We just defined a name for our repo, ubi8-httpd, and we chose to link this repository to a GitHub repository push."

A block of code is set as follows:

[Unit]
Description=Podman API Socket
Documentation=man:podman-system-service(1)

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

$ podman ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE
COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS
NAMES
685a339917e7 registry.fedoraproject.org/f29/httpd:latest /
usr/bin/run-http... 3 minutes ago Up 3 minutes ago
clever_zhukovsky

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ skopeo login -u admin -p p0dman4Dev0ps# --tls-verify=false localhost:5000
Login Succeeded!

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: "… and prints a crafted HTML page with the Hello World! message when it receives a GET / request."

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