Preface

DevOps best practices encourage the adoption of containers as the foundation of cloud-native ecosystems. As containers have become the new de facto standard for packaging applications and their dependencies, understanding how to implement, build, and manage them is now an essential skill for developers, system administrators, and SRE/operations teams. Podman and its companion tools, Buildah and Skopeo, make a great toolset to boost the development, execution, and management of containerized applications. Starting from the basic concepts of containerization and its underlying technologies, this book will help you get your first container up and running with Podman. The book explores the complete toolkit and illustrates the development of new containers, their life cycle management, troubleshooting, and security aspects.

By the end of Podman for DevOps, you'll have the skills needed to be able to build and package your applications inside containers as well as deploy, manage, and integrate them with system services.