Chapter 9. Managing a container network The chapter provides information about how to communicate among containers. 9.1. Listing container networks In Podman, there are two network behaviors - rootless and rootful: Rootless networking - the network is setup automatically, the container does not have an IP address. Rootful networking - the container has an IP address. Prerequisites The container-tools meta-package is installed. Procedure List all networks as a root user: By default, Podman provides a bridged network. List of networks for a rootless user is the same as for a rootful user. Additional resources podman-network-ls man page on your system 9.2. Inspecting a network Display the IP range, enabled plugins, type of network, and so on, for a specified network listed by the podman network ls command. Prerequisites The container-tools meta-package is installed. Procedure Inspect the default podman network: You can see the IP range, enabled plugins, type of network, and other network settings. Additional resources podman-network-inspect man page on your system 9.3. Creating a network Use the podman network create command to create a new network. Note By default, Podman creates an external network. You can create an internal network using the podman network create --internal command. Containers in an internal network can communicate with other containers on the host, but cannot connect to the network outside of the host nor be reached from it. Prerequisites The container-tools meta-package is installed. Procedure Create the external network named mynet : Verification List all networks: You can see the created mynet network and default podman network. Note Beginning with Podman 4.0, the DNS plugin is enabled by default if you create a new external network using the podman network create command. Additional resources podman-network-create man page on your system 9.4. Connecting a container to a network Use the podman network connect command to connect the container to the network. Prerequisites The container-tools meta-package is installed. A network has been created using the podman network create command. A container has been created. Procedure Connect a container named mycontainer to a network named mynet : Verification Verify that the mycontainer is connected to the mynet network: You can see that mycontainer is connected to mynet and podman networks. Additional resources podman-network-connect man page on your system 9.5. Disconnecting a container from a network Use the podman network disconnect command to disconnect the container from the network. Prerequisites The container-tools meta-package is installed. A network has been created using the podman network create command. A container is connected to a network. Procedure Disconnect the container named mycontainer from the network named mynet : Verification Verify that the mycontainer is disconnected from the mynet network: You can see that mycontainer is disconnected from the mynet network, mycontainer is only connected to the default podman network. Additional resources podman-network-disconnect man page on your system 9.6. Removing a network Use the podman network rm command to remove a specified network. Prerequisites The container-tools meta-package is installed. Procedure List all networks: Remove the mynet network: Note If the removed network has associated containers with it, you have to use the podman network rm -f command to delete containers and pods. Verification Check if mynet network was removed: Additional resources podman-network-rm man page on your system 9.7. Removing all unused networks Use the podman network prune to remove all unused networks. An unused network is a network which has no containers connected to it. The podman network prune command does not remove the default podman network. Prerequisites The container-tools meta-package is installed. Procedure Remove all unused networks: Verification Verify that all networks were removed: Additional resources podman-network-prune man page on your system

Commands:
podman network ls NETWORK ID NAME VERSION PLUGINS 2f259bab93aa podman 0.4.0 bridge,portmap,firewall,tuning
podman network inspect podman [ { "cniVersion": "0.4.0", "name": "podman", "plugins": [ { "bridge": "cni-podman0", "hairpinMode": true, "ipMasq": true, "ipam": { "ranges": [ [ { "gateway": "10.88.0.1", "subnet": "10.88.0.0/16" } ] ], "routes": [ { "dst": "0.0.0.0/0" } ], "type": "host-local" }, "isGateway": true, "type": "bridge" }, { "capabilities": { "portMappings": true }, "type": "portmap" }, { "type": "firewall" }, { "type": "tuning" } ] } ]
podman network create mynet /etc/cni/net.d/mynet.conflist
podman network ls NETWORK ID NAME VERSION PLUGINS 2f259bab93aa podman 0.4.0 bridge,portmap,firewall,tuning 11c844f95e28 mynet 0.4.0 bridge,portmap,firewall,tuning,dnsname
podman network connect mynet mycontainer
podman inspect --format='{{.NetworkSettings.Networks}}' mycontainer map[podman:0xc00042ab40 mynet:0xc00042ac60]
podman network disconnect mynet mycontainer
podman inspect --format='{{.NetworkSettings.Networks}}' mycontainer map[podman:0xc000537440]
podman network ls NETWORK ID NAME VERSION PLUGINS 2f259bab93aa podman 0.4.0 bridge,portmap,firewall,tuning 11c844f95e28 mynet 0.4.0 bridge,portmap,firewall,tuning,dnsname
podman network rm mynet mynet
podman network ls NETWORK ID NAME VERSION PLUGINS 2f259bab93aa podman 0.4.0 bridge,portmap,firewall,tuning
podman network prune WARNING! This will remove all networks not used by at least one container. Are you sure you want to continue? [y/N] y
podman network ls NETWORK ID NAME VERSION PLUGINS 2f259bab93aa podman 0.4.0 bridge,portmap,firewall,tuning