Dan Walsh has another blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site this time he's writing about 6 guides on making containers secure. It's a quick article with pointers to other blog posts showing how to secure your containers.
Jack Wallen has a blog post on the THENEWSTACK site with a great introduction on how to Deploy a Pod on CentOS with Podman. In the post, Jack talks about how Podman fits in the Red Hat ecosystem and then walks you through the fundamentals of creating and running a pod using Podman.
Brent Baude has another blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site this time it's all about How to run Podman on Windows with WSL2. If you want to know how to run Podman on Windows 10, this article will show you how.
Over the holiday break, a number of great posts were added to a number of sites that filled up my Twitter feed, so I thought I'd throw together a quick block with links to the highlights from the past month:
Podman version 1.7 is coming out soon and will include new features that will make management of containers with systemd services even easier. Valentin Rothberg has a blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site that previews the features: Running containers with Podman and shareable systemd services. In the post Valentin goes over the highlights and then gives a great working example.
Do you want to know how to setup RHEL 8 to run containers using Podman? Xuegang Jin has a blog post on the Red Hat Blog about this very subject, Working with Linux containers on RHEL 8 with Podman, image builder and web console. In the post Xuegang explains how you can use Image Builder to create an OS image, how to run containers with Podman, and how to check the host and containers performance using Web Console.
Do you run containers as root, or as a regular user? Scott McCarty has a blog post on the Red Hat Blog about this very subject, Understanding root inside and outside a container. In the post Scott walks you through what a rootless container does and how it can be a safer alternative to a container run by root.
Dan Walsh has another blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site this time about Rootless Podman and NFS. In the post Dan talks about how you can make some minor configuration changes to allow Podman to use a user's home directory on an NFS share. Give it a read!
Josphat Mutai posted a blog post on the Computing for Geeks site talking about How To Install Podman on Debian. In the post Josphat walks through all the steps necessary from 'A' to 'Z' to get Podman up and running on Debian and how to do some initial Podman commands.
Brent Baude has another blog post on the Red Hat Enable Sysadmin site this time about Leasing routable IP addresses with Podman containers. In the post Brent talks about using the macvlan and the dhcp plugins that ship with the container-networking project in order to lease ip addresses for your containers.