Technical requirements
To complete this chapter, you will need a machine with a working Podman installation. As we mentioned in Chapter 3, Running the First Container, all the examples in this book were executed on a Fedora 34 system or later but can be reproduced on your choice of operating system (OS).
Having a good understanding of the topics that were covered in Chapter 4, Managing Running Containers, Chapter 5, Implementing Storage for the Container's Data, and Chapter 9, Pushing Images to a Container Registry, will help you grasp the topics we'll cover regarding advanced containers.
You should also have a good understanding of system administration and Kubernetes container orchestration.
For the examples related to the Kubernetes section, you will require Podman version 4.0.0 because of a bug in version 3.4.z that prevents container environment variables from being created (https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/12781). This bug was fixed in v4.0.0 but...