Podman : Use Dockerfile2021/11/11

	Use Dockerfile and create Container images automatically. It is also useful for configuration management for Container images.
[1]	For example, Create a Dockerfile that Nginx is installed and started.

[root@dlp ~]#

vi Dockerfile

# create new

FROM fedora
MAINTAINER ServerWorld <admin@srv.world>

RUN dnf -y install nginx
RUN echo "Dockerfile Test on Nginx" > /usr/share/nginx/html/index.html

EXPOSE 80
CMD ["/usr/sbin/nginx", "-g", "daemon off;"]

# build image ⇒ docker build -t [image name]:[tag] .

[root@dlp ~]#

podman build -t srv.world/fedora-nginx:latest .

STEP 1/6: FROM fedora
STEP 2/6: MAINTAINER ServerWorld <admin@srv.world>
--> 5f89d07e9ca
STEP 3/6: RUN dnf -y install nginx
.....
.....
Successfully tagged srv.world/fedora-nginx:latest
f27df6dc0cf8591ac8aa30acc4fce71c27747e624033925a1e09afc250022512

[root@dlp ~]#

podman images

REPOSITORY                         TAG         IMAGE ID      CREATED         SIZE
srv.world/fedora-nginx             latest      f27df6dc0cf8  15 seconds ago  391 MB
srv.world/fedora-httpd             latest      3b282c5eda58  5 minutes ago   418 MB
registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora  latest      1b52edb08181  7 days ago      159 MB

# run container

[root@dlp ~]#

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

479e7e003edbe5f1a9c51eeac5d17cf78e40ea0c6e99a17604236e4ef76fab17

[root@dlp ~]#

podman ps

CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                          COMMAND               CREATED         STATUS             PORTS               NAMES
479e7e003edb  srv.world/fedora-nginx:latest  /usr/sbin/nginx -...  16 seconds ago  Up 16 seconds ago  0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp  angry_rubin

# verify accesses

[root@dlp ~]#

curl localhost

Dockerfile Test on Nginx

# also possible to access via container network

[root@dlp ~]#

podman inspect -l | grep \"IPAddress

            "IPAddress": "10.88.0.8",
                    "IPAddress": "10.88.0.8",

[root@dlp ~]#

curl 10.88.0.8

Dockerfile Test on Nginx

The format of Dockerfile is [INSTRUCTION arguments] .
Refer to the following description for INSTRUCTION.

INSTRUCTION	Description
FROM	It sets the Base Image for subsequent instructions.
MAINTAINER	It sets the Author field of the generated images.
RUN	It will execute any commands when Docker image will be created.
CMD	It will execute any commands when Docker container will be executed.
ENTRYPOINT	It will execute any commands when Docker container will be executed.
LABEL	It adds metadata to an image.
EXPOSE	It informs Docker that the container will listen on the specified network ports at runtime.
ENV	It sets the environment variable.
ADD	It copies new files, directories or remote file URLs.
COPY	It copies new files or directories. The differences of [ADD] are that it's impossible to specify remote URL and also it will not extract archive files automatically.
VOLUME	It creates a mount point with the specified name and marks it as holding externally mounted volumes from native host or other containers
USER	It sets the user name or UID.
WORKDIR	It sets the working directory.

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