What this book covers
Chapter 1, Introduction to Container Technology, covers the key concepts of container technology, a bit of history, and the underlying foundational elements that make things work.
Chapter 2, Comparing Podman and Docker, takes you through the architectures of Docker versus Podman, looking at high-level concepts and the main differences between them.
Chapter 3, Running the First Container, teaches you how to set up the prerequisites for running and managing your first container with Podman.
Chapter 4, Managing Running Containers, helps you understand how to manage the life cycles of your containers, starting/stopping/killing them to properly manage the services.
Chapter 5, Implementing Storage for the Container's Data, covers the basics of storage requirements for containers, the various offerings available, and how to use them.
Chapter 6, Meet Buildah – Building Containers from Scratch, is where you begin to learn the basic concepts of Buildah, Podman's companion tool that is responsible for assisting system administrators as well as developers during the container creation process.
Chapter 7, Integrating with Existing Application Build Processes, teaches you techniques and methods to integrate Buildah into a build process for your existing applications.
Chapter 8, Choosing the Container Base Image, covers more about the container base image format, trusted sources, and their underlying features.
Chapter 9, Pushing Images to a Container Registry, teaches you what a container registry is, how to authenticate them, and how to work with images by pushing and pulling them.
Chapter 10, Troubleshooting and Monitoring Containers, shows you how to inspect running or failing containers, search for issues, and monitor the health status of containers.
Chapter 11, Securing Containers, goes into more detail on security in containers, the main issues, and the important step of updating container images during runtime.
Chapter 12, Implementing Container Networking Concepts, teaches you about Containers Network Interface (CNI), how to expose a container to the external world, and finally, how to interconnect two or more containers running on the same machine.
Chapter 13, Docker Migration Tips and Tricks, sees you learn how to migrate from Docker to Podman in the easiest way by using some of the built-in features of Podman, as well as some tricks that may help in the process.
Chapter 14, Interacting with systemd and Kubernetes, shows you how to integrate a container as a system service in the underlying operating host, enabling its management with the common sysadmin's tools. Podman interaction features with Kubernetes will also be explored.
