Every journey has to start somewhere. In this lab, we jump right into the deep end and look at how to launch and interact with our first container! Once complete, you’ll know how to start, interact, and stop a container.
Learning Objectives
Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:
- Run Your First Podman Container
Let’s try the following:
- Check for running containers as
cloud_userandroot - Check for local container images
- Search for
httpd-24container images - Run the
docker.io/centos/httpd-24-centos8image- In detached mode, with a
ttyto run commands
- In detached mode, with a
- Check for running containers as
cloud_useragain - Check for local container images again
- Check the contents of the
/etc/redhat-releasefile on the server - Open a
bashshell in our container- Check the contents of the
/etc/redhat-releasefile in the container - Try accessing the Apache web server running on port
8080usingcurl - Exit the container’s
bashshell
- Check the contents of the
- Try accessing the Apache web server running on port
8080usingcurlfrom the server- This will fail as we haven’t published port
8080on the container
- This will fail as we haven’t published port
- Check for running containers as
- Clean Up
Let’s clean up after ourselves!
Do the following:
- Check for running containers as
cloud_useragain - Stop our running container
- Check for running containers as
cloud_useragain and verify it’s stopped - Remove the container
- Check for running containers as
cloud_useragain and verify it’s removed - Check for local container images again
- Remove our
httpd-24-centos8:latestimage from local storage - Check for local container images again
- Check for running containers as
