9.4. Connecting a container to a network

Prerequisites

• The container-tools meta-package is installed.
• A network has been created by using the podman network create command.
• A container has been created.

Procedure

• Connect a container named mycontainer to a network named mynet:

  # podman network connect mynet mycontainer

Verification

• Verify that the mycontainer is connected to the mynet network:

  # podman inspect --format='{{.NetworkSettings.Networks}}' mycontainer
  map[podman:0xc00042ab40 mynet:0xc00042ac60]

  You can see that mycontainer is connected to mynet and podman networks.