Podman : Generate Systemd unit file2021/05/24

	It's possible to generate Systemd unit file and set auto-starting for containers.
[1]	Set auto-starting for containers.

[root@dlp ~]#

podman images

REPOSITORY                         TAG     IMAGE ID      CREATED         SIZE
srv.world/fedora-nginx             latest  483f8a2536ed  16 minutes ago  428 MB
registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora  latest  3567369c6711  9 days ago      184 MB

# run container

[root@dlp ~]#

podman run --name fedora-nginx -d -p 80:80 srv.world/fedora-nginx

[root@dlp ~]#

podman ps

CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                   COMMAND               CREATED        STATUS            PORTS               NAMES
a26c01180a8c  srv.world/fedora-nginx  /usr/sbin/nginx -...  5 minutes ago  Up 5 minutes ago  0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp  fedora-nginx

# generate Systemd unit file

[root@dlp ~]#

podman generate systemd --new --files --name fedora-nginx

/root/container-fedora-nginx.service

[root@dlp ~]#

cat /root/container-fedora-nginx.service

# container-fedora-nginx.service
# autogenerated by Podman 3.1.2
# Sun May 23 20:03:15 EDT 2021

[Unit]
Description=Podman container-fedora-nginx.service
Documentation=man:podman-generate-systemd(1)
Wants=network.target
After=network-online.target
RequiresMountsFor=/var/lib/containers/storage /run/containers/storage

[Service]
Environment=PODMAN_SYSTEMD_UNIT=%n
Restart=on-failure
TimeoutStopSec=70
ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f %t/container-fedora-nginx.pid %t/container-fedora-nginx.ctr-id
ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman run --conmon-pidfile %t/container-fedora-nginx.pid --cidfile %t/container-fedora-nginx.ctr-id --cgroups=no-conmon --replace --name fedora-nginx -d -p 80:80 srv.world/fedora-nginx
ExecStop=/usr/bin/podman stop --ignore --cidfile %t/container-fedora-nginx.ctr-id -t 10
ExecStopPost=/usr/bin/podman rm --ignore -f --cidfile %t/container-fedora-nginx.ctr-id
PIDFile=%t/container-fedora-nginx.pid
Type=forking

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target default.target

[root@dlp ~]#

cp /root/container-fedora-nginx.service /usr/lib/systemd/system

# enable auto-starting

[root@dlp ~]#

systemctl enable container-fedora-nginx.service

Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/container-fedora-nginx.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/container-fedora-nginx.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target.wants/container-fedora-nginx.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/container-fedora-nginx.service.

[2]	Set auto-starting for pods.

# run Pod

[root@dlp ~]#

podman run -dt --pod new:nginx-pod -p 80:80 srv.world/fedora-nginx

[root@dlp ~]#

podman pod ls

POD ID        NAME       STATUS   CREATED         INFRA ID      # OF CONTAINERS
7e18be5eeeb9  nginx-pod  Running  19 seconds ago  5f9b94032d6d  2

# generate Systemd unit file

[root@dlp ~]#

podman generate systemd --files --name nginx-pod

/root/pod-nginx-pod.service
/root/container-gracious_williamson.service

[root@dlp ~]#

cp /root/pod-nginx-pod.service /root/container-gracious_williamson.service /usr/lib/systemd/system

# enable auto-starting

[root@dlp ~]#

systemctl enable pod-nginx-pod.service container-gracious_williamson.service

Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/pod-nginx-pod.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/pod-nginx-pod.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target.wants/pod-nginx-pod.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/pod-nginx-pod.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/container-gracious_williamson.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/container-gracious_williamson.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target.wants/container-gracious_williamson.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/container-gracious_williamson.service.

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