26.12 Managing Containers in Cockpit
In addition to the command-line tools outlined so far in this chapter, Linux containers may also be created and managed using the Cockpit web interface. Assuming that Cockpit is installed and enabled on the system (a topic covered in “An Overview of the RHEL 8 Cockpit Web Interface”), and that the steps to log into the Red Hat Container Registry outlined at the start of the chapter have been completed, sign into Cockpit and select the Podman Containers screen as shown in Figure 26-1:
The first step is to download an image to use as the basis for a container (unless one has already been downloaded using the command-line tools). To perform the download, click on the Get new image button and enter a keyword into the search dialog. Figure 26-2, for example, shows the result of searching for the RHEL 8 universal base image:
Once the image has been located, select it and click on the Download...