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podman — Simple management tool for pods, containers, and images. Podman provides a Docker-CLI comparable com

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Problem

How to use the podman command: Simple management tool for pods, containers, and images. Podman provides a Docker-CLI comparable command-line. Simply put: alias docker=podman. More information: <https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/commands-demo.md>.

Solution

podman — Simple management tool for pods, containers, and images. Podman provides a Docker-CLI comparable command-line. Simply put: alias docker=podman. More information: <https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/commands-demo.md>.

List all containers (both running and stopped):

podman ps {{[-a|--all]}}

Create a container from an image, with a custom name:

podman run --name {{container_name}} {{image}}

Start or stop an existing container:

podman {{start|stop}} {{container_name}}

Pull an image from a registry (defaults to Docker Hub):

podman pull {{image}}

Display the list of already downloaded images:

podman images

Open a shell inside an already running container:

podman exec {{[-it|--interactive --tty]}} {{container_name}} {{sh}}

Remove a stopped container:

podman rm {{container_name}}

Display the logs of one or more containers and follow log output:

podman logs {{[-f|--follow]}} {{container_name}} {{container_id}}

Code Snippets

List all containers (both running and stopped)

podman ps {{[-a|--all]}}

Create a container from an image, with a custom name

podman run --name {{container_name}} {{image}}

Start or stop an existing container

podman {{start|stop}} {{container_name}}

Pull an image from a registry (defaults to Docker Hub)

podman pull {{image}}

Display the list of already downloaded images

podman images

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