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NAME
podman-pod-create - Create a new pod
SYNOPSIS
podman pod create [options]
DESCRIPTION
Creates an empty pod, or unit of multiple containers, and prepares it to have containers added to it. The
pod id is printed to STDOUT. You can then use podman create --pod <pod_id|pod_name> ... to add containers
to the pod, and podman pod start <pod_id|pod_name> to start the pod.
OPTIONS
--add-host=host:ip
Add a host to the /etc/hosts file shared between all containers in the pod.
--cgroup-parent=path
Path to cgroups under which the cgroup for the pod will be created. If the path is not absolute, the path
is considered to be relative to the cgroups path of the init process. Cgroups will be created if they do
not already exist.
--dns=ipaddr
Set custom DNS servers in the /etc/resolv.conf file that will be shared between all containers in the
pod. A special option, "none" is allowed which disables creation of /etc/resolv.conf for the pod.
--dns-opt=option
Set custom DNS options in the /etc/resolv.conf file that will be shared between all containers in the
pod.
--dns-search=domain
Set custom DNS search domains in the /etc/resolv.conf file that will be shared between all containers in
the pod.
--gidmap=container_gid:host_gid:amount
GID map for the user namespace. Using this flag will run the container with user namespace enabled. It
conflicts with the --userns and --subgidname flags.
--uidmap=container_uid:from_uid:amount
Run the container in a new user namespace using the supplied mapping. This option conflicts with the
--userns and --subuidname options. This option provides a way to map host UIDs to container UIDs. It can
be passed several times to map different ranges.
--subgidname=name
Name for GID map from the /etc/subgid file. Using this flag will run the container with user namespace
enabled. This flag conflicts with --userns and --gidmap.
--subuidname=name
Name for UID map from the /etc/subuid file. Using this flag will run the container with user namespace
enabled. This flag conflicts with --userns and --uidmap.
--help, -h
Print usage statement.
--hostname=name
Set a hostname to the pod
--infra=true|false
Create an infra container and associate it with the pod. An infra container is a lightweight container
used to coordinate the shared kernel namespace of a pod. Default: true.
--infra-conmon-pidfile=file
Write the pid of the infra container's conmon process to a file. As conmon runs in a separate process
than Podman, this is necessary when using systemd to manage Podman containers and pods.
--infra-command=command
The command that will be run to start the infra container. Default: "/pause".
--infra-image=image
The image that will be created for the infra container. Default: "k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1".
--infra-name=name
The name that will be used for the pod's infra container.
--ip=ipaddr
Set a static IP for the pod's shared network.
--label=label, -l
Add metadata to a pod (e.g., --label com.example.key=value).
--label-file=label
Read in a line delimited file of labels.
--mac-address=address
Set a static MAC address for the pod's shared network.
--name=name, -n
Assign a name to the pod.
--network=mode, --net
Set network mode for the pod. Supported values are: - bridge: Create a network stack on the default
bridge. This is the default for rootfull containers. - none: Create a network namespace for the
container but do not configure network interfaces for it, thus the container has no network connectivity.
- host: Do not create a network namespace, all containers in the pod will use the host's network. Note:
the host mode gives the container full access to local system services such as D-bus and is therefore
considered insecure. - network: Connect to a user-defined network, multiple networks should be comma-
separated. - private: Create a new namespace for the container. This will use the bridge mode for
rootfull containers and slirp4netns for rootless ones. - slirp4netns[:OPTIONS,...]: use slirp4netns(1)
to create a user network stack. This is the default for rootless containers. It is possible to specify
these additional options:
- allow_host_loopback=true|false: Allow the slirp4netns to reach the host loopback IP (10.0.2.2, which
is added to /etc/hosts as host.containers.internal for your convenience). Default is false.
- mtu=MTU: Specify the MTU to use for this network. (Default is 65520).
- cidr=CIDR: Specify ip range to use for this network. (Default is 10.0.2.0/24).
- enable_ipv6=true|false: Enable IPv6. Default is false. (Required for outbound_addr6).
- outbound_addr=INTERFACE: Specify the outbound interface slirp should bind to (ipv4 traffic only).
- outbound_addr=IPv4: Specify the outbound ipv4 address slirp should bind to.
- outbound_addr6=INTERFACE: Specify the outbound interface slirp should bind to (ipv6 traffic only).
- outbound_addr6=IPv6: Specify the outbound ipv6 address slirp should bind to.
- port_handler=rootlesskit: Use rootlesskit for port forwarding. Default.
Note: Rootlesskit changes the source IP address of incoming packets to a IP address in the container
network namespace, usually 10.0.2.100. If your application requires the real source IP address, e.g. web
server logs, use the slirp4netns port handler. The rootlesskit port handler is also used for rootless
containers when connected to user-defined networks.
- port_handler=slirp4netns: Use the slirp4netns port forwarding, it is slower than rootlesskit but
preserves the correct source IP address. This port handler cannot be used for user-defined networks.
--network-alias=strings
Add a DNS alias for the pod. When the pod is joined to a CNI network with support for the dnsname plugin,
the containers inside the pod will be accessible through this name from other containers in the network.
--no-hosts=true|false
Disable creation of /etc/hosts for the pod.
--pid=pid
Set the PID mode for the pod. The default is to create a private PID namespace for the pod. Requires the
PID namespace to be shared via --share.
host: use the host’s PID namespace for the pod
ns: join the specified PID namespace
private: create a new namespace for the pod (default)
--pod-id-file=path
Write the pod ID to the file.
--publish=port, -p
Publish a port or range of ports from the pod to the host.
Format: ip:hostPort:containerPort | ip::containerPort | hostPort:containerPort | containerPort Both
hostPort and containerPort can be specified as a range of ports. When specifying ranges for both, the
number of container ports in the range must match the number of host ports in the range. Use podman port
to see the actual mapping: podman port CONTAINER $CONTAINERPORT.
NOTE: This cannot be modified once the pod is created.
--replace=true|false
If another pod with the same name already exists, replace and remove it. The default is false.
--share=namespace
A comma-separated list of kernel namespaces to share. If none or "" is specified, no namespaces will be
shared. The namespaces to choose from are ipc, net, pid, uts.
The operator can identify a pod in three ways: UUID long identifier
(“f78375b1c487e03c9438c729345e54db9d20cfa2ac1fc3494b6eb60872e74778”) UUID short identifier
(“f78375b1c487”) Name (“jonah”)
podman generates a UUID for each pod, and if a name is not assigned to the container with --name then a
random string name will be generated for it. The name is useful any place you need to identify a pod.
--userns=mode
Set the user namespace mode for all the containers in a pod. It defaults to the PODMAN_USERNS environment
variable. An empty value ("") means user namespaces are disabled.
Valid mode values are:
• auto[:OPTIONS,...]: automatically create a namespace. It is possible to specify these options to
auto:
• gidmapping=_CONTAINER_GID:HOSTGID:SIZE to force a GID mapping to be present in the user
namespace.
• size=SIZE: to specify an explicit size for the automatic user namespace. e.g.
--userns=auto:size=8192. If size is not specified, auto will estimate a size for the user
namespace.
• uidmapping=_CONTAINER_UID:HOSTUID:SIZE to force a UID mapping to be present in the user
namespace.
• host: run in the user namespace of the caller. The processes running in the container will have
the same privileges on the host as any other process launched by the calling user (default).
• keep-id: creates a user namespace where the current rootless user's UID:GID are mapped to the
same values in the container. This option is ignored for containers created by the root user.
EXAMPLES
$ podman pod create --name test
$ podman pod create --infra=false
$ podman pod create --infra-command /top
$ podman pod create --publish 8443:443
$ podman pod create --network slirp4netns:outbound_addr=127.0.0.1,allow_host_loopback=true
$ podman pod create --network slirp4netns:cidr=192.168.0.0/24
SEE ALSO
podman-pod(1)
HISTORY
July 2018, Originally compiled by Peter Hunt pehunt@redhat.com ⟨mailto:pehunt@redhat.com⟩
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