Podman Question

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Hi all, apologies if this is in the wrong category!

My org has recently made the switch over to AlmaLinux for our Linux based servers going forward. With that, we are venturing into containerization using Podman. So far, I am very happy with it and have been using it personally for a few weeks (this is my first proper venture into containerization).

However, in the org setting I’d like to keep the “persistent” files of the containers in a shared location, not under one user’s home directory. Our AlmaLinux VMs are joined to an AD domain, and we use accounts from that domain to administer them.

What is the best/accepted practice for this? Can anyone link any resources that may be applicable? I thought about making a service account user and just having admins switch to that user when doing anything with podman, but I’m not sure that that is the best solution.

Thank you so much for your time and I look forward to our transition into using AlmaLinux!

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The location of images ought to be configurable. Look at man podman and particularly man containers-storage.conf
That is, even a user may be able to override/customize storage location.

I don’t really use containers and definitely do not use AD, but I’d create a group (rather than account) that has write access to the (shared) storage location.