How To Install podman on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install podman
on CentOS 7.
What is podman
podman (Pod Manager) is a fully featured container engine that is a simple daemonless tool. podman provides a Docker-CLI comparable command line that eases the transition from other container engines and allows the management of pods, containers and images. Simply put as a regular user, without requiring additional privileges. podman uses Buildah(1) internally to create container images. Both tools share image (not container) storage, hence each can use or manipulate images (but not containers) created by the other. Manage Pods, Containers and Container Images libpod Simple management tool for pods, containers and images
We can use yum
or dnf
to install podman
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install podman.
Install podman on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install podman
using yum
by running the following command:
Install podman on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install podman
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall podman on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the podman
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install podman
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.