370 pages · PDF

Podman in Production

Containers, Orchestration, and Observability with Podman.

Written for Podman 6

This 370-page guide starts with Podman's daemonless, rootless architecture and follows a workload into production. It covers systemd and Quadlet, health checks and self-healing, and OpenTelemetry. It assumes that you already ship Linux containers.

By Wolfgang Kerschbaumer

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01 Contents

Build and operate a Podman deployment.

The first four parts explain container internals, images, networking, and security. The rest of the book covers Quadlet, health checks, OpenTelemetry, and a comparison of four orchestration approaches. Open a part to see its chapters.

Preface

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

02 Who it's for

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.

Written for

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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