Buildah and Skopeo – Podman’s friends with benefits
The title of this chapter mentions Podman and Friends. Well, up until this point, you have probably noticed we didn’t talk much about Podman’s friends. Podman brings along a couple of companions to facilitate all your container management needs. These buddies of Podman are otherwise known as Buildah and Skopeo.
Where Podman is primarily focused on running containers, Buildah focuses on building them, and Skopeo focuses on handling images and transferring them to/from remote container registries.
Getting ready
We will require the following:
- Oracle Linux
- Podman
- Buildah
- Skopeo
How to do it…
In this recipe, we’ll explore the basic usage of Buildah and Skopeo to reveal how these two friends of Podman can enhance your experience and workflow when dealing with containers.
Building container images with Buildah
While Podman can be used for basic container...