Journey with podman⌗

Let’s start⌗

Installation⌗

With pacman, it’s easy,

sudo pacman -S podman

First pull⌗

Alpine⌗ 

podman pull docker.io/library/alpine

First run⌗ 

podman run -it --rm docker.io/library/alpine
-it: These are two options combined⌗
  • i stands for interactive, and it allows you to interact with the container’s stdin.
  • t allocates a pseudo-TTY, which enables a terminal inside the container.

So, -it together is often used when you want to run an interactive session inside the container

or, perhaps you want to run⌗ 
podman run --name test --rm docker.io/library/alpine "cat" /etc/os-release

Here’s the breakdown of the command:

  • podman run: This is the command to run a container with Podman.
  • –name test: This option assigns the name “test” to the running container. This allows you to reference the container by this name instead of using its container ID.
  • –rm: This option instructs Podman to automatically remove the container when it exits. This is useful for temporary containers.
  • docker.io/library/alpine: This is the name of the Docker image from which to create the container. In this case, it’s the official Alpine Linux image from Docker Hub.
  • “cat” /etc/os-release: This is the command that will be executed within the container. It runs the cat command to display the contents of the /etc/os-release file, which contains information about the operating system.

Exited? Want to return?⌗ 

docker start -a -i `docker ps -q -l`

Explanation:

  • docker start start a container (requires name or ID)
  • -a attach to container
  • -i interactive mode
  • docker ps List containers
  • -q list only container IDs
  • -l list only last created container

And then, to list all⌗

And to list all,

podman images

Getting rid of it?⌗

Just list first,

podman ps -a

and then,

podman rm <container-id>