contents

 

  

Front matter

preface

acknowledgments

about this book

about the author

about the cover illustration

  

Part 1. Foundations

  1 Podman: A next-generation container engine

  1.1   About all these terms

  1.2   A brief overview of containers

Container images: A new way to ship software

Container images lead to microservices

Container image format

Container standards

  1.3   Why use Podman when you have Docker?

Why have only one way to run containers?

Rootless containers

Fork/exec model

Podman is daemonless

User-friendly command line

Support for REST API

Integration with systemd

Pods

Customizable registries

Listing images