podman Cheat Sheet

podman Cheat Sheet

# podman Cheat Sheet

**create a pod**

```
podman pod create --name=my-pod
```

**create a container in a pod**

```
podman create --pod=my-pod --name=container-a -t centos top
podman create --pod=my-pod --name=container-b -t centos top
```

**generate systemd configurations**

```
cd $HOME/.config/systemd/user
podman generate systemd --new --files --name my-pod
```

**reload the daemon**

```
systemctl --user daemon-reload
```

**start the pod**

```
systemctl --user start pod-my-pod.service
systemctl --user is-active pod-my-pod.service
podman pod ps
```

**stop the pod**

```
systemctl --user stop pod-my-pod.service
podman pod ps -q
podman container ps -q
```

**enable the service to start automatically**

```
systemctl --user enable myuser.service
systemctl --user start myuser.service
```

**enable the user running service to linger**

```
sudo loginctl enable-linger [USER]
```

## Resources

* https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/01/15/podman-managing-containers-pods
* https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-run-pods-systemd-services