Muayyad Alsadi's article in Fedora Magazine talks about Building Smaller Container Images by leveraging microdnf within fedora-minimal. It's a really nice way to save space and build more compact containers.
Who doesn't want a healthy container in their environment? Now with Podman you can setup healthchecks so you can check if your container and it's application is up and running as you'd expect. Brent Baude introduces the new functionality in this article on the Red Hat Developer Blog: Monitoring container vitality and availability with Podman.
What happens when you combine Matryoshka Dolls with containers? Why you get containers in containers in containers! Read all about it with this new article on the Red Hat Developer Blog: Build and run Buildah inside a Podman container.
Ed Santiago (@edsantiago) needed help with his New York Times crossword puzzle. So naturally he turned to Podman to save the day. Read about it in his blog post: Podman Saves My Crossword Habit. Many thanks to Ed for sharing this innovative use of Podman.
It's in German, but a worthy read Podman: Linux containers made easy, part 1. Valentin Rothberg (@vrothberg) introduces Podman to the reader and talks about how it fits in the container eco-system. If your German is a little rusty, you may need to lean on Google Translate.
A new article about how Docker users can use Podman and Buildah on the Red Hat Developer Site. William Henry (@ipbabble) introduces the two tools to Docker users and explains how they can be used to replace Docker and how the two tools are related.
Kubernetes installations can be complex with multiple runtime dependencies and runtime engines. CRI-O was created to provide a lightweight runtime for Kubernetes which adds an abstraction layer between the cluster and the runtime that allows for various OCI runtime technologies. However you still have the problem of daemon dependencies in your cluster for builds - I.e. if you are using the cluster for builds you still need a Docker daemon.
Enter Buildah. Buildah allows you to have a Kubernetes cluster without any Docker daemon for both runtime and builds. Excellent. But what if things go wrong? What if you want to do troubleshooting or debugging of containers in your cluster? Buildah isn’t really built for that, what you need is a client tool for working with containers and the one that comes to mind is Docker CLI - but then you’re back to using the daemon.
This is where Podman steps in. Podman allows you to do all of the Docker commands without the daemon dependency. With Podman you can run, build (it calls Buildah under the covers for this), modify and troubleshoot containers in your Kubernetes cluster. With the two projects together, you have a well rounded solution for your OCI container image and container needs.