Creating a pod from selected containers

With Podman Desktop, you can create a pod from your selected containers, and run the pod on the Podman container engine.

Consider running containers in a pod to:

1. Expose your frontend application to the public network.
2. Protect your database container in a private network.

Prerequisites

• You are using the Podman container engine.
• Your containers, such as database and frontend, running or stopped, are available on the Containers page.
• The frontend container is configured to access the service exposed by the database container on localhost, such as localhost:6379.

Procedure

1. Go to Containers.
2. Click the checkbox in the container line for your containers, such as database and frontend.
3. Click .
4. In the Copy containers to a pod screen:
   1. Name of the pod: enter your pod name, such as my-pod.
   2. All selected ports will be exposed:
      1. Select frontend.
      2. Clear database.
5. Click Create Pod.

Verification

1. Go to Pods.
2. Click your pod, such as my-pod.
3. Go to Logs: see the combined logs from the two containers.
4. Go to Summary: see the containers.
5. Click frontend-podified.
6. Click .
7. Your browser opens the service exposed by your frontend-podified container.
8. Go to Containers: see the running containers.