1. Using the Cockpit Web Console
  2. Podman Management Tasks
  3. Podman Pod Management
  4. Inspect and Change a Pod Group

Inspect and Change a Pod Group

Using the Podman page in the Cockpit web console, you can inspect, and change existing pod group configurations as needed. For example, you can view pod groups to inspect container configurations. You can also commit changes, rename, or change the operating state of any container within a pod group. Finally, you can checkpoint, and restore a running pod group container, or remove a pod group as needed.

What Do You Need?

  • The Cockpit web console must be installed and accessible.

    For details, see these topics: Install and Enable Cockpit and Log in to the Cockpit Web Console.

  • The Podman container tools must be installed on the host system. For information on how to install Podman, see Installing Podman and Related Utilities in Oracle Linux: Podman User's Guide.
  • The Cockpit-Podman add-on application must be installed. For further information on how to configure the Cockpit web console to interact with Podman, see Install and Configure Cockpit-Podman.
  • One or more pod groups must already exist in the Container table. For information on how to create a Pod Group, see Create a Pod Group.
  • Users with limited access privileges can only access and change the containers and pod groups they created.

Steps

Using the Cockpit web console, follow these steps to inspect and change a container in a pod group.

  1. In the Cockpit navigation pane, click Podman.

    The Podman page appears.

  2. In the Podman page, navigate to the Container table and find the row with the pod group of interest and perform any of the following: