podman-pod-create
Create a new pod
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Create a new pod
podman pod create [options]
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.
Add a host to the /etc/hosts file shared between all containers in the pod.
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.
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.
Set custom DNS options in the /etc/resolv.conf file that will be shared between all containers in the pod.
Set custom DNS search domains in the /etc/resolv.conf file that will be shared between all containers in the pod.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Print usage statement.
Set a hostname to the pod
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.
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.
The command that will be run to start the infra container. Default: "/pause".
The image that will be created for the infra container. Default: "k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.1".
The name that will be used for the pod's infra container.
Set a static IP for the pod's shared network.
Add metadata to a pod (e.g., --label com.example.key=value).
Read in a line delimited file of labels.
Set a static MAC address for the pod's shared network.
Assign a name to the pod.
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.
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.
Disable creation of /etc/hosts for the pod.
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)
Write the pod ID to the file.
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.
If another pod with the same name already exists, replace and remove it. The default is false.
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.
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:
$ 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
July 2018, Originally compiled by Peter Hunt pehunt@redhat.com ⟨mailto:pehunt@redhat.com⟩