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Podman Usage Transfer

This document outlines useful information for ops and dev transfer as it relates to infrastructure that utilizes Podman.

Operational Transfer

Abstract

Podman is a tool for managing Pods, Containers, and Container Images. The CLI for Podman is based on the Docker CLI, although Podman does not require a runtime daemon to be running in order to function. Podman also supports the Docker API via the Podman socket activated system service.

System Tools

Many traditional tools will still be useful, such as pstree, nsenter and lsns. As well as some systemd helpers like systemd-cgls and systemd-cgtop are still just as applicable.

Equivalents

For many troubleshooting and information collection steps, there may be an existing pattern. Following provides equivalent with Podman tools for gathering information or jumping into containers, for operational use.

Development Transfer

There are other equivalents for these tools

Existing Step	`Podman` (and friends)
`docker`	`podman`
`docker attach`	`podman attach`
`docker auto-update`	`podman auto-update`
`docker build`	`podman build`
`docker commit`	`podman commit`
`docker container`	`podman container`
`docker container prune`	`podman container prune`
`docker cp`	`podman cp`
`docker create`	`podman create`
`docker diff`	`podman diff`
`docker events`	`podman events`
`docker exec`	`podman exec`
`docker export`	`podman export`
`docker history`	`podman history`
`docker image`	`podman image`
`docker images`	`podman images`
`docker import`	`podman import`
`docker info`	`podman info`
`docker inspect`	`podman inspect`
`docker kill`	`podman kill`
`docker load`	`podman load`
`docker login`	`podman login`
`docker logout`	`podman logout`
`docker logs`	`podman logs`
`docker manifest`	`podman manifest`
`docker manifest annotate`	`podman manifest annotate`
`docker manifest create`	`podman manifest create`
`docker manifest inspect`	`podman manifest inspect`
`docker manifest push`	`podman manifest push`
`docker manifest rm`	`podman manifest rm`
`docker network`	`podman network`
`docker network connect`	`podman network connect`
`docker network create`	`podman network create`
`docker network disconnect`	`podman network disconnect`
`docker network inspect`	`podman network inspect`
`docker network ls`	`podman network ls`
`docker network rm`	`podman network rm`
`docker pause`	`podman pause`
`docker port`	`podman port`
`docker ps`	`podman ps`
`docker pull`	`podman pull`
`docker push`	`podman push`
`docker rename`	`podman rename`
`docker restart`	`podman restart`
`docker rm`	`podman rm`
`docker rmi`	`podman rmi`
`docker run`	`podman run`
`docker save`	`podman save`
`docker search`	`podman search`
`docker secret`	`podman secret`
`docker secret create`	`podman secret`
`docker secret inspect`	`podman secret`
`docker secret ls`	`podman secret`
`docker secret rm`	`podman secret`
`docker service`	`podman service`
`docker start`	`podman start`
`docker stats`	`podman stats`
`docker stop`	`podman stop`
`docker system`	`podman system`
`docker system df`	`podman system df`
`docker system events`	`podman system events`
`docker system info`	`podman system info`
`docker system prune`	`podman system prune`
`docker tag`	`podman tag`
`docker top`	`podman top`
`docker unpause`	`podman unpause`
`docker version`	`podman version`
`docker volume`	`podman volume`
`docker volume create`	`podman volume create`
`docker volume inspect`	`podman volume inspect`
`docker volume ls`	`podman volume ls`
`docker volume prune`	`podman volume prune`
`docker volume rm`	`podman volume rm`
`docker wait`	`podman wait`

Behavioural differences and pitfalls

These commands behave differently from the commands in Docker:

Command	Description
`podman volume create`	While `docker volume create` is idempotent, `podman volume create` raises an error if the volume does already exist. See this docker issue for more information.
`podman run -v /tmp/noexist:/tmp ...`	While `docker run -v /tmp/noexist:/tmp` will create non existing volumes on the host, Podman will report that the volume does not exist. The Podman team sees this as a bug in Docker.

Missing commands in podman

Those Docker commands currently do not have equivalents in podman:

Missing command	Description
`docker builder`
`docker buildx`
`docker config`
`docker context`
`docker container update`	podman does not support altering running containers. We recommend recreating containers with the correct arguments.
`docker node`
`docker plugin`	podman does not support plugins. We recommend you use alternative OCI Runtimes or OCI Runtime Hooks to alter behavior of podman.
`docker stack`
`docker swarm`	podman does not support swarm. We support Kubernetes for orchestration using CRI-O.
`docker trust`	`podman image trust`
`docker update`

Missing commands in Docker

The following podman commands do not have a Docker equivalent:

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