13장. Porting containers to OpenShift using Podman


You can generate portable descriptions of containers and pods by using the YAML ("YAML Ain’t Markup Language") format. The YAML is a text format used to describe the configuration data.

The YAML files are:

  • Readable.
  • Easy to generate.
  • Portable between environments (for example between RHEL and OpenShift).
  • Portable between programming languages.
  • Convenient to use (no need to add all the parameters to the command line).

Reasons to use YAML files:

  1. You can re-run a local orchestrated set of containers and pods with minimal input required which can be useful for iterative development.
  2. You can run the same containers and pods on another machine. For example, to run an application in an OpenShift environment and to ensure that the application is working correctly. You can use podman generate kube command to generate a Kubernetes YAML file. Then, you can use podman play command to test the creation of pods and containers on your local system before you transfer the generated YAML files to the Kubernetes or OpenShift environment. With podman play command, you can also recreate pods and containers originally created in OpenShift or Kubernetes environments.
참고

The podman kube play command supports a subset of Kubernetes YAML capabilities. For more information, see the support matrix of supported YAML fields.

13.1. Generating a Kubernetes YAML file using Podman

You can create a pod with one container and generate the Kubernetes YAML file by using the podman generate kube command.

Prerequisites

  • The container-tools meta-package is installed.
  • The pod has been created. For details, see section Creating pods.

Procedure

  1. List all pods and containers associated with them:

    $ podman ps -a --pod
    CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                                       COMMAND    CREATED                 STATUS                     PORTS  NAMES               POD
    5df5c48fea87  registry.access.redhat.com/ubi10/ubi:latest  /bin/bash  Less than a second ago  Up Less than a second ago         myubi               223df6b390b4
    3afdcd93de3e  k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1                                   Less than a second ago  Up Less than a second ago         223df6b390b4-infra  223df6b390b4
  2. Use the pod name or ID to generate the Kubernetes YAML file:

    $ podman generate kube mypod > mypod.yaml

    Note that the podman generate command does not reflect any Logical Volume Manager (LVM) logical volumes or physical volumes that might be attached to the container.

  3. Display the mypod.yaml file:

    $ cat mypod.yaml
    # Generation of Kubernetes YAML is still under development!
    #
    # Save the output of this file and use kubectl create -f to import
    # it into Kubernetes.
    #
    # Created with podman-1.6.4
    apiVersion: v1
    kind: Pod
    metadata:
      creationTimestamp: "2020-06-09T10:31:56Z"
      labels:
    app: mypod
      name: mypod
    spec:
      containers:
      - command:
            - /bin/bash
            env:
            - name: PATH
                  value: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
            - name: TERM
                  value: xterm
            - name: HOSTNAME
            - name: container
                  value: oci
            image: registry.access.redhat.com/ubi10/ubi:latest
            name: myubi
            resources: {}
            securityContext:
                  allowPrivilegeEscalation: true
                  capabilities: {}
                  privileged: false
                  readOnlyRootFilesystem: false
            tty: true
            workingDir: /
    status: {}
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