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Getting Started with Podman

by Andrew Mallett

This course will teach you the skills you need to be able to install and manage containers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 using Podman.

What you'll learn

In today’s market there are many container management systems available and the latest of these is Podman, and is invested in heavily by Red Hat. Running containers may need you to become the root user or to belong to specific groups to gain additional access. Elevating user privileges is not necessarily the best way of working. In this course, Getting Started with Podman, you’ll learn how to install Podman and manage Podman containers using standard user accounts. First, you’ll explore the concepts of container management and how to setup the lab environment. Next, you’ll discover how to quickly deploy Podman images as containers and connect through to their services. Finally, you’ll learn how to control user ID mappings using rootless containers. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of managing containers with Podman needed to deploy and manage containers needed for services in your 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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