9 Podman as a service
This chapter covers
- Running Podman as a service
- Podman service support for two REST APIs
- Python libraries podman-py and docker-py for managing Podman containers
- Support for
docker-compose
- Remote command-line communication with the Podman service
- Managing SSH communications with remote Podman instances
In previous chapters, you learned about the Podman command line. The problem with this is sometimes you want to work with containers from a remote system. Similarly, you might want to write code in a scripting language to interact with containers. Docker, being written as a client-server application, supports a popular remote API, which led to the creation of libraries written in Python and JavaScript to access the daemon. ...
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