Podman in Production
Containers, Orchestration, and Observability with Podman.
Written for Podman 6
The practitioner's guide to running containers in production with Podman:
its daemonless, rootless architecture, systemd and Quadlet orchestration,
health checks and self-healing, and observability with OpenTelemetry.
356 pages, written for engineers who already ship with containers.
Secure checkout via Polar · PDF + EPUB + examples archive + free updates.
From container internals to a production deployment.
Foundations, the image lifecycle, networking, security, orchestration with systemd and Quadlet, and a four-way orchestrator comparison. Expand a part to see its chapters.
What this book assumes, and how to read it
Part 1 Foundations 4 chapters
- 1 Why Podman
- 2 Linux Container Primitives
- 3 Installation and Configuration
- 4 Rootless Containers
Part 2 The Container Lifecycle 6 chapters
- 5 Images and Containerfiles
- 6 Building with Buildah
- 7 Distributing Images with Skopeo
- 8 Running Containers
- 9 Storage, Volumes, and Artifacts
- 10 Pods
Part 3 Networking 2 chapters
- 11 Networking with Netavark
- 12 Rootless Networking with pasta
Part 4 Security 2 chapters
- 13 The Podman Security Model
- 14 Supply Chain Security
Part 5 Orchestrating with Podman 6 chapters
- 15 systemd and Quadlet
- 16 Health Checks and Self-Healing
- 17 Compose and the Docker API
- 18 Kubernetes Workflows
- 19 Observability and OpenTelemetry
- 20 A Production Deployment with Quadlet
Part 6 Podman Among the Alternatives 2 chapters
- 21 The Same App Four Ways
- 22 Podman in a Kubernetes World
Part 7 Appendices 3 appendices
- A Docker to Podman Migration
- B Troubleshooting Field Guide
- C Configuration Reference
For engineers who already ship containers.
This is a production field guide. It assumes you know Docker and Linux and picks up where the getting-started guides stop.
- Practicing DevOps, platform, and SRE engineers who already know Docker and Linux.
- Teams moving production workloads from a daemon-based runtime to a daemonless, rootless one.
- Engineers who want systemd, Quadlet, health checks, and OpenTelemetry wired together end to end.
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