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Oracle Linux Cookbook

You're reading from   Oracle Linux Cookbook Embrace Oracle Linux and master Linux Server Management

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803249285
Length 548 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Erik Benner Erik Benner
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Mr. Jonathan Spindel Mr. Jonathan Spindel
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Erik B. Thomsen Erik B. Thomsen
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Oracle Linux 8 – Get It? Got It? Good! 2. Chapter 2: Installing with and without Automation Magic FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Exploring the Various Boot Options and Kernels in Oracle Linux 4. Chapter 4: Creating and Managing Single-Instance Filesystems 5. Chapter 5: Software Management with DNF 6. Chapter 6: Eliminating All the SPOFs! An Exercise in Redundancy 7. Chapter 7: Oracle Linux 8 – Patching Doesn’t Have to Mean Rebooting 8. Chapter 8: DevOps Automation Tools – Terraform, Ansible, Packer, and More 9. Chapter 9: Keeping the Data Safe – Securing a System 10. Chapter 10: Revisiting Modules and AppStreams 11. Chapter 11: Lions, Tigers, and Containers – Oh My! Podman and Friends 12. Chapter 12: Navigating Ansible Waters 13. Chapter 13: Let’s All Go to the Cloud 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Ridding yourself of demons – err um – daemons, with Podman

Docker and Podman are both tools that aim to make it easier to run and manage containers on a host machine. Since Podman is the new kid on the block, you may be wondering how you can switch from Docker to Podman. While technically it is possible to run both Docker and Podman together on the same system, there are very few practical reasons to do this. Since both tools provide the same core capabilities, I would advise you to choose one or the other.

One of the key benefits of switching to Podman is you will inherently lose the daemon that lurked behind the scenes of Docker. You see, Docker relies on a daemon that does all the heavy lifting of managing containers. This may not seem so bad on the surface, but there are some things to be aware of when it comes to this architecture.

For starters, having an extra daemon running in the background means there is one more point of failure. If that dedicated daemon...

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