From 460182dc5dc4caf2199b46370882237e6735fa3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Holzinger Date: Sat, 15 May 2021 12:02:44 +0200 Subject: network tutorial: update with rootless cni changes Starting with podman v3.2 rootless cni will work without the rootless-cni-infra container. Update the network tutorial to reflect the latest changes and mention that the infra container can be removed. Signed-off-by: Paul Holzinger --- docs/tutorials/basic_networking.md | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/tutorials/basic_networking.md b/docs/tutorials/basic_networking.md index 51dfa7564..850bf6681 100644 --- a/docs/tutorials/basic_networking.md +++ b/docs/tutorials/basic_networking.md @@ -87,12 +87,16 @@ network, and the one will be created as a bridge network. $ podman network create ``` -When rootless containers are run with a CNI networking configuration, a “side-car” -container for running CNI is also run. Do not remove this container while your rootless -containers are running. if you remove this container (e.g by accident) all attached -containers lose network connectivity. In order to restore the network connectivity -all containers with networks must be restarted. This will automatically recreate -the "side-car" container. For rootfull containers, there is no “side-car” container +When rootless containers are run with a CNI networking configuration, CNI operations +will be executed inside an extra network namespace. To join this namespace, use +`podman unshare --rootless-cni`. Podman version 3.1 and earlier use a special “side-car” +container called rootless-cni-infra. Do not remove this container while your rootless +containers are running. If you remove this container (e.g. by accident), all attached +containers lose network connectivity. In order to restore the network connectivity, all +containers with networks must be restarted. This will automatically recreate the "side-car" +container. When you are using version 3.2 or newer the “side-car” container can be +safely removed. Therefore, it is no longer used. +For rootfull containers, there is no extra namespace or “side-car” container as rootfull users have the permissions to create and modify network interfaces on the host. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf