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author | Matthew Heon <matthew.heon@gmail.com> | 2018-05-11 10:43:34 -0400 |
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committer | Atomic Bot <atomic-devel@projectatomic.io> | 2018-05-11 15:32:27 +0000 |
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Update Podman-specific readme
Signed-off-by: Matthew Heon <matthew.heon@gmail.com>
Closes: #754
Approved by: baude
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diff --git a/cmd/podman/README.md b/cmd/podman/README.md index 6978b056a..0fee7eafa 100644 --- a/cmd/podman/README.md +++ b/cmd/podman/README.md @@ -1,16 +1,15 @@ # podman - Simple debugging tool for pods and images -podman is a simple client only tool to help with debugging issues when daemons such as CRI runtime and the kubelet are not responding or -failing. A shared API layer could be created to share code between the daemon and podman. podman does not require any daemon running. podman -utilizes the same underlying components that crio uses i.e. containers/image, container/storage, oci-runtime-tool/generate, runc or -any other OCI compatible runtime. podman shares state with crio and so has the capability to debug pods/images created by crio. +podman is a daemonless container runtime for managing containers, pods, and container images. +It is intended as a counterpart to CRI-O, to provide low-level debugging not available through the CRI interface used by Kubernetes. +It can also act as a container runtime independent of CRI-O, creating and managing its own set of containers. ## Use cases -1. List pods. -2. Launch simple pods (that require no daemon support). -3. Exec commands in a container in a pod. -4. Launch additional containers in a pod. -5. List images. -6. Remove images not in use. -7. Pull images. -8. Check image size. -9. Report pod disk resource usage. +1. Create containers +2. Start, stop, signal, attach to, and inspect existing containers +3. Run new commands in existing containers +4. Push and pull images +5. List and inspect existing images +6. Create new images by committing changes within a container +7. Create pods +8. Start, stop, signal, and inspect existing pods +9. Populate pods with containers |