remember you can do man podman at anytime.

what is podman?

simple management tool for pods, containers and images. Podman uses buildah to create container images.

commands

• podman search --limit int <name>

  • search a container image from the registries, the limit flag limits the output. The registries path:/etc/containers/registries*

• podman run -it <image>

  • run image while keeping STDIN even if detached (i), also allocate pseudo-TTY for container (t).

• podman build -t <tag/name> -f <Containerfile>

  • build container, with tag from dockerfile.

  • If it complaints about some crun permissions thing, you can try adding --cgroup-manager cgroupfs to the command. This is just a workaround not a permanent fix.

• podman images

  • list images in local storage

• podman images prune

  • remove all images from local storage, a warning will come up

• podman rmi <ID/name>

  • remove image by ID or name

• podman inspect <container>

  • display container information, you can use -l to display the info of the last container.

• podman logs <container>

  • display container logs, you can use -l to display the info of the last container.

• podman stop <container>

  • stop container or containers, you can use -l to display the info of the last container.