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Managing Podman containers

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Managing Podman containers

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So, Docker is kind of old school according to Red Hat. Red Hat has their own stack, that's Potman for running containers. Let's talk Potman. So what is there to know? Well, Potman is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and later native way to run containers. You'll find it on Red Hat, on Fedora, on CentOS, on Rocky, on all the Red Hat related distributions and even on other distributors, it's finding its way. To start Potman containers, you need to ensure that the Potman software is installed. And in Potman, there is no need to run any daemon to start Potman containers. They call it native support. Also, Potman can do this thing that we call rootless containers. And rootless containers do not require any root privileges, but can run with ordinary user credentials. Isn't that cool? Let's go check it out. So the potman containers are in potman.yaml. And what do we see? We see that, oh, apparently this is based on containers.potman. So we need Ansible Galaxy install containers.potman. It's kind…

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