✏️

autocompletion

• 🧐 podman inspect --format ...
• 🤝 podman --connection ...

✨ Demo!

👔 podman auto-update

Container must run inside a systemd unit

• io.containers.autoupdate{/$container}
  • registry
  • local
• AutoUpdate={registry,local}

🔢 quadlets

• Run Podman containers under systemd
• Declarative

🔢 quadlets

• ~/.config/containers/systemd
• my-awesome-application.container
• data.volume
• internal.network
• systemctl --user daemon-reload
• systemctl --user start my-awesome-application.service

🔢 quadlets

podman run --name devconf-quadlet \
    --rm -d \
    -p 80:8080 \
    quay.io/libpod/alpine:latest
                        

[Container]
ContainerName=devconf-quadlet
Image=quay.io/libpod/alpine:latest
PublishPort=80:8080

[Service]
Restart=always
                        

⏪ podman auto-update --rollback

Container must run inside a systemd unit

• --sdnotify=container
• io.containers.sdnotify{/$container}
  • conmon
  • container
• Notify=true

✨ Demo!

🔄 podman update

• --health-cmd
• --health-interval
• --health-log-destination
• --health-max-log-count
• --health-max-log-size
• --health-retries
• ...

🔄 podman update

• --health-log-destination
• local
• directory
• events_logger

🙋 podman healthcheck run

✨ Demo!

🔗

Integrations

• 🛫 Cockpit
• 🛋️ Ansible
• 😏 More, if we have time...

🛫 Cockpit

                            $ sudo dnf install -y cockpit-podman
                            $ sudo systemctl start cockpit
                        

🛋️ Ansible

                            $ sudo dnf install -y ansible
                            $ ansible-galaxy collection install containers.podman
                        

---
  - name: Setup some containers as a good example
    hosts: localhost
    gather_facts: false
    vars:
      container_name: "devconf-ansible"
      container_image: "fedora:latest"

    tasks:
      - name: Create a container volume
        containers.podman.podman_volume:
          name: "{{ container_name }}-volume"
          state: present

      - name: Create a container network
        containers.podman.podman_network:
          name: "{{ container_name }}-network"
          subnet: "172.0.0.0/24"
          driver: bridge
          state: present

      - name: Create a container Pod
        containers.podman.podman_pod:
          name: "{{ container_name }}-pod"
          network: "{{ container_name }}-network"
          state: started

      - name: Create the DevConf container
        containers.podman.podman_container:
          name: "{{ container_name }}"
          image: "{{ container_image }}"
          volumes:
            - "{{ container_name }}-volume:/root:Z"
          env:
            YEAR: 2025
          interactive: true
          healthcheck: echo \"Thank you for being at DevConf $YEAR!\"
          healthcheck_interval: "2s"
          healthcheck_retries: 5
          healthcheck_start_period: "2s"
          state: started
                        

✨ Demo!

🧩

all the other features

• 🕹️ Kube Play and Compose
• 🔢 Quadlets

✨ Demo!