In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of Podman on OpenBSD.
Podman is a container engine for Linux that enables users to manage and run containers without requiring a daemon. Podman can be used to create, manage, and run pods and containers, and it supports a wide variety of container images and runtime environments.
Here are the steps to install Podman on OpenBSD:
Podman requires Go version 1.14 or later to be installed on your system. Here is how to install Go:
$ doas pkg_add go
This command will download and install the Go programming language on your OpenBSD system.
Once you have installed Go, you can proceed with installing Podman. Here are the steps to install Podman on OpenBSD:
Clone the Podman repository from GitHub:
$ git clone https://github.com/containers/podman.git
Change into the cloned directory:
$ cd podman
Build the Podman binary:
$ make podman
Install Podman:
$ doas make install.bin
By default, Podman is installed into /usr/local/bin. You can confirm the installation by running:
$ which podman
/usr/local/bin/podman
To test Podman, run the following command:
$ podman run -it --rm alpine /bin/sh
This command will create and start a container based on the Alpine Linux image, start a shell inside the container, and remove the container when the shell exits.
You should see output similar to the following:
Unable to find image 'alpine:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from library/alpine
6c40cc604d8e: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:a75afd8b57e7f34e4dad8d65e2c7ba2e1975c795ce1ee22fa34f8cf46f96a3be
Status: Downloaded newer image for alpine:latest
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You can now use Podman on OpenBSD to create and manage containerized applications.
In this tutorial, we have covered the installation of Podman on OpenBSD. With Podman installed, you can use it to create, manage, and run containers on your OpenBSD system.
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