13.7. Automatically running containers and pods using Podman

1. a directory with the same name as the image used in YAML file exists
2. that directory contains a Containerfile

Procedure

1. Create the wordpress pod by using the wordpress.yaml file:

   $ podman play kube wordpress.yaml
   STEP 1/2: FROM docker.io/library/mariadb
   STEP 2/2: COPY my.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf
   COMMIT localhost/mariadb-conf:latest
   --> 428832c45d0
   Successfully tagged localhost/mariadb-conf:latest
   428832c45d07d78bb9cb34e0296a7dc205026c2fe4d636c54912c3d6bab7f399
   Trying to pull docker.io/library/wordpress:latest...
   Getting image source signatures
   Copying blob 99c3c1c4d556 done
   ...
   Storing signatures
   Pod:
   3e391d091d190756e655219a34de55583eed3ef59470aadd214c1fc48cae92ac
   Containers:
   6c59ebe968467d7fdb961c74a175c88cb5257fed7fb3d375c002899ea855ae1f
   29717878452ff56299531f79832723d3a620a403f4a996090ea987233df0bc3d

   The podman play kube command:

   • Automatically build the localhost/mariadb-conf:latest image based on docker.io/library/mariadb image.
   • Pull the docker.io/library/wordpress:latest image.
   • Create a pod named wordpresspod with two containers named wordpresspod-mydb and wordpresspod-myweb.

2. List all containers and pods:

   $ podman ps --pod -a
   CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                               COMMAND               CREATED        STATUS                    PORTS                 NAMES               POD ID        PODNAME
   a1dbf7b5606c  k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.5                                      3 minutes ago  Up 2 minutes ago          0.0.0.0:8080->80/tcp  3e391d091d19-infra  3e391d091d19  wordpresspod
   6c59ebe96846  localhost/mariadb-conf:latest       mariadbd              2 minutes ago  Exited (1) 2 minutes ago  0.0.0.0:8080->80/tcp  wordpresspod-mydb   3e391d091d19  wordpresspod
   29717878452f  docker.io/library/wordpress:latest  apache2-foregroun...  2 minutes ago  Up 2 minutes ago          0.0.0.0:8080->80/tcp  wordpresspod-myweb  3e391d091d19  wordpresspod