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Rohit Kalyan Kandulapati
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Podman Cheatsheet

#containers #docker #devops #podman

Images

Listing Images 

podman images
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Pulling an Image 

podman pull jenkins
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Deleting Images 

podman rmi <image-name or image-id>
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Remove un-used images at once 

podman image prune
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podman rmi $(podman images -aq)
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Building images from a Dockerfile 

# . represents that the Dockerfile is present in the location where you are running this command.
podman build -t podman-image:1.0 .
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Saving images to your local in archive 

podman image save -o image.tar <image-id>
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Load a container from a stored archive 

podman load -i archive_name.tar
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Tagging an image 

podman tag <image-id> target-image-name

# Tagging images with a tag
podman tag -t <image-id> target-image-name:tag
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Containers

Listing the containers that are running. 

podman ps
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Listing all containers in your machine 

podman ps -a
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Running a container 

# Running a container normally
podman run <image-id>

# Running a container in detached mode
podman run -d <image-id>

# Adding a name 
podman run -d --name jenkins <image-id>
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Stopping a container 

podman stop <container-id>
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Starting a stopped container 

podman start <container-id>
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Removing a container 

podman rm <container-id>
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Logs of a container 

podman logs <container-id>

# Watching logs 
podman logs --tail=100 -f <container-id>
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Copying files from/to a container 

# Copying files to a container
# It is better to copy files from you podman machine to a container rather than from your local.

# podman cp source_path destination_path

podman cp file_path_in_your_podman_machine container_id:path_in_your_container

# Copying files from your container to your podman machine
podman cp container_id:path_in_your_container file_path_in_your_podman_machine
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Logging into a container 

podman exec -it <container-id> /bin/bash

# Logging in as a root user
podman exec -it --user root <container-id> /bin/bash
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Creating an image from a container 

podaman commit <container-ID> image_name
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Inspecting a container 

podman inspect <container-id>
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Network

Listing Networks 

podman network ls
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Creating a network 

podman network create net-1
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Removing a network 

podman network rm net-1
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Attaching network to a container 

podman network connect <container-id>
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Attaching network at while running the container 

podman run -d --network net-1 --name jenkins <image-id>
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Inspecting a network 

podman network inspect net-1
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Volumes

Creating a volume 

podman volume create volume-1
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Listing Volumes 

podman volume ls
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Removing Volumes 

podman volume rm volume-1
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Removing unused volumes in your machine 

podman volume prune
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Attaching Volume while running the container 

podman run -d --volume volume-1:/var/jenkins_home --network net-1 --name jenkins <image-id>
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