Podman : Generate Systemd unit file2021/07/29

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

[root@dlp ~]#

podman images

REPOSITORY                             TAG     IMAGE ID      CREATED            SIZE
localhost/root_web                     latest  a5b8f841a624  38 minutes ago     340 MB
srv.world/rocky-nginx                  latest  b11bf176fd62  About an hour ago  340 MB
srv.world/rocky-httpd                  latest  5104875e9a87  About an hour ago  342 MB
docker.io/library/mariadb              latest  fd17f5776802  2 days ago         416 MB
registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/pause  latest  330db2d74fc3  5 weeks ago        3.49 MB
docker.io/rockylinux/rockylinux        latest  333da17614b6  5 weeks ago        234 MB
docker.io/library/registry             2       1fd8e1b0bb7e  3 months ago       26.8 MB

# run container

[root@dlp ~]#

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

[root@dlp ~]#

podman ps

CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                  COMMAND               CREATED        STATUS            PORTS               NAMES
e03dfd334d99  srv.world/rocky-nginx  /usr/sbin/nginx -...  7 seconds ago  Up 8 seconds ago  0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp  rocky-nginx

# generate Systemd unit file

[root@dlp ~]#

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

/root/container-rocky-nginx.service

[root@dlp ~]#

cat /root/container-rocky-nginx.service

# container-rocky-nginx.service
# autogenerated by Podman 3.0.2-dev
# Thu Jul 29 16:44:06 JST 2021

[Unit]
Description=Podman container-rocky-nginx.service
Documentation=man:podman-generate-systemd(1)
Wants=network.target
After=network-online.target

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

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

[root@dlp ~]#

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

# enable auto-starting

[root@dlp ~]#

systemctl enable container-rocky-nginx.service

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

[2]	Set auto-starting for pods.

# run Pod

[root@dlp ~]#

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

[root@dlp ~]#

podman pod ls

POD ID        NAME       STATUS   CREATED        INFRA ID      # OF CONTAINERS
65c960c84fb6  nginx-pod  Running  5 seconds ago  ce5918266667  2

# generate Systemd unit file

[root@dlp ~]#

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

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

[root@dlp ~]#

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

# enable auto-starting

[root@dlp ~]#

systemctl enable pod-nginx-pod.service container-optimistic_haslett.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-hopeful_newton.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/container-hopeful_newton.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/default.target.wants/container-hopeful_newton.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/container-hopeful_newton.service.

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