Chapter 10. Working with pods Containers are the smallest unit that you can manage with Podman, Skopeo and Buildah container tools. A Podman pod is a group of one or more containers. The Pod concept was introduced by Kubernetes. Podman pods are similar to the Kubernetes definition. Pods are the smallest compute units that you can create, deploy, and manage in OpenShift or Kubernetes environments. Every Podman pod includes an infra container. This container holds the namespaces associated with the pod and allows Podman to connect other containers to the pod. It allows you to start and stop containers within the pod and the pod will stay running. The default infra container on the registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/pause image. 10.1. Creating pods You can create a pod with one container. Prerequisites The container-tools meta-package is installed. Procedure Create an empty pod: The pod is in the initial state Created. Optional: List all pods: Notice that the pod has one container in it. Optional: List all pods and containers associated with them: You can see that the pod ID from podman ps command matches the pod ID in the podman pod ps command. The default infra container is based on the registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/pause image. Run a container named myubi in the existing pod named mypod : Optional: List all pods: You can see that the pod has two containers in it. Optional: List all pods and containers associated with them: Additional resources podman-pod-create man page on your system Podman: Managing pods and containers in a local container runtime 10.2. Displaying pod information Learn about how to display pod information. Prerequisites The container-tools meta-package is installed. The pod has been created. For details, see section Creating pods . Procedure Display active processes running in a pod: To display the running processes of containers in a pod, enter: To display a live stream of resource usage stats for containers in one or more pods, enter: To display information describing the pod, enter: You can see information about containers in the pod. Additional resources podman pod top , podman-pod-stats , and podman-pod-inspect man pages on your system 10.3. Stopping pods You can stop one or more pods using the podman pod stop command. Prerequisites The container-tools meta-package is installed. The pod has been created. For details, see section Creating pods . Procedure Stop the pod mypod : Optional: List all pods and containers associated with them: You can see that the pod mypod and container myubi are in "Exited" status. Additional resources podman-pod-stop man page on your system 10.4. Removing pods You can remove one or more stopped pods and containers using the podman pod rm command. Prerequisites The container-tools meta-package is installed. The pod has been created. For details, see section Creating pods . The pod has been stopped. For details, see section Stopping pods . Procedure Remove the pod mypod , type: Note that removing the pod automatically removes all containers inside it. Optional: Check that all containers and pods were removed: Additional resources podman-pod-rm man page on your system

Commands:
podman pod create --name mypod 223df6b390b4ea87a090a4b5207f7b9b003187a6960bd37631ae9bc12c433aff The pod is in the initial state Created.
podman pod ps POD ID NAME STATUS CREATED # OF CONTAINERS INFRA ID 223df6b390b4 mypod Created Less than a second ago 1 3afdcd93de3e
podman ps -a --pod CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES POD 3afdcd93de3e registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/pause Less than a second ago Created 223df6b390b4-infra 223df6b390b4
podman run -dt --name myubi --pod mypod registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi /bin/bash 5df5c48fea87860cf75822ceab8370548b04c78be9fc156570949013863ccf71
podman pod ps POD ID NAME STATUS CREATED # OF CONTAINERS INFRA ID 223df6b390b4 mypod Running Less than a second ago 2 3afdcd93de3e
podman ps -a --pod CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES POD 5df5c48fea87 registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi:latest /bin/bash Less than a second ago Up Less than a second ago myubi 223df6b390b4 3afdcd93de3e registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/pause Less than a second ago Up Less than a second ago 223df6b390b4-infra 223df6b390b4
podman pod top mypod USER PID PPID %CPU ELAPSED TTY TIME COMMAND 0 1 0 0.000 24.077433518s ? 0s /pause root 1 0 0.000 24.078146025s pts/0 0s /bin/bash
podman pod stats -a --no-stream ID NAME CPU % MEM USAGE / LIMIT MEM % NET IO BLOCK IO PIDS a9f807ffaacd frosty_hodgkin -- 3.092MB / 16.7GB 0.02% -- / -- -- / -- 2 3b33001239ee sleepy_stallman -- -- / -- -- -- / -- -- / -- --
podman pod inspect mypod { "Id": "db99446fa9c6d10b973d1ce55a42a6850357e0cd447d9bac5627bb2516b5b19a", "Name": "mypod", "Created": "2020-09-08T10:35:07.536541534+02:00", "CreateCommand": [ "podman", "pod", "create", "--name", "mypod" ], "State": "Running", "Hostname": "mypod", "CreateCgroup": false, "CgroupParent": "/libpod_parent", "CgroupPath": "/libpod_parent/db99446fa9c6d10b973d1ce55a42a6850357e0cd447d9bac5627bb2516b5b19a", "CreateInfra": false, "InfraContainerID": "891c54f70783dcad596d888040700d93f3ead01921894bc19c10b0a03c738ff7", "SharedNamespaces": [ "uts", "ipc", "net" ], "NumContainers": 2, "Containers": [ { "Id": "891c54f70783dcad596d888040700d93f3ead01921894bc19c10b0a03c738ff7", "Name": "db99446fa9c6-infra", "State": "running" }, { "Id": "effc5bbcfe505b522e3bf8fbb5705a39f94a455a66fd81e542bcc27d39727d2d", "Name": "myubi", "State": "running" } ] }
podman pod stop mypod
podman ps -a --pod CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES POD ID PODNAME 5df5c48fea87 registry.redhat.io/ubi9/ubi:latest /bin/bash About a minute ago Exited (0) 7 seconds ago myubi 223df6b390b4 mypod 3afdcd93de3e registry.access.redhat.com/9/pause About a minute ago Exited (0) 7 seconds ago 8a4e6527ac9d-infra 223df6b390b4 mypod
podman pod rm mypod 223df6b390b4ea87a090a4b5207f7b9b003187a6960bd37631ae9bc12c433aff
podman ps podman pod ps