Getting Started with Podman

by Andrew Mallett

Being able to deploy services quickly and robustly is a must for any DevOps team. The latest container management system is Podman. In this course, you'll learn the skills needed to manage the container lifecycle.

What you'll learn

Being able to change your systems at a moment's notice and being able to reflect the changing needs of your customers is not possible without systems that can be deployed quickly. In this course, Getting Started with Podman, you’ll gain the ability to use containers that are managed with Podman without the need of elevated privileges. First, you’ll explore what is meant by "Rootless Containers." Next, you’ll discover how Podman can easily and quickly deploy your services. Finally, you’ll learn how to deploy MySQL databases to writable persistent volumes. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of container management needed to work effectively in a modern DevOps environment.

About the author

Andrew is an all around Linux professional with in depth knowledge of the OS and this is supported with scripting in bash, perl, python and ruby and application development in C, C++ and Java. Having worked for many years in training, Andrew has developed automated course build systems after endless time wasted on Friday nights. The first build system he built was aptly named "Friday nights." This has inspired his interest in all things deployment related. He has authored training courses on M... more

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