Creating handy-dandy utility containers
This recipe shows how to use Podman to quickly spin up a container to complete useful tasks.
This recipe will walk you through the process of creating super useful utilities leveraging containers. The basic principle of containers encourages us to formulate our containers to do only one thing – that is, to provide some form of utility and nothing more. You should not create a container that does too much. With that being said, most container images already exist to provide a useful utility. In this recipe, we are going to look at examples of containers that serve a useful purpose, and we’re going to explore how to make use of this.
Getting ready
We will require the following:
- Oracle Linux
- Podman
How to do it…
The main intention of this recipe is to show how we can use containers to achieve a function without installing additional packages on our local machine. Once you have Podman installed...