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podman-generate-kube(1)() podman-generate-kube(1)()

podman-generate-kube - Generate Kubernetes YAML based on a pod or container

podman generate kube [options] container... | pod

podman generate kube will generate Kubernetes Pod YAML (v1 specification) from Podman one or more containers or a single pod. Whether the input is for containers or a pod, Podman will always generate the specification as a Pod. The input may be in the form of a pod or one or more container names or IDs.

Note that the generated Kubernetes YAML file can be used to re-run the deployment via podman-play-kube(1).

--filename, -f=filename

Output to the given file, instead of STDOUT. If the file already exists, generate kube will refuse to replace it and return an error.

--service, -s

Generate a Kubernetes service object in addition to the Pods. Used to generate a Service specification for the corresponding Pod output. In particular, if the object has portmap bindings, the service specification will include a NodePort declaration to expose the service. A random port is assigned by Podman in the specification.

Create Kubernetes Pod YAML for a container called some-mariadb .

$ sudo podman generate kube some-mariadb
# Generation of Kubernetes YAML is still under development!
#
# Save the output of this file and use kubectl create -f to import
# it into Kubernetes.
#
# Created with podman-0.11.2-dev
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:

creationTimestamp: 2018-12-03T19:07:59Z
labels:
app: some-mariadb
name: some-mariadb-libpod spec:
containers:
- command:
- docker-entrypoint.sh
- mysqld
env:
- name: PATH
value: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
- name: TERM
value: xterm
- name: HOSTNAME
- name: container
value: podman
- name: GOSU_VERSION
value: "1.10"
- name: GPG_KEYS
value: "199369E5404BD5FC7D2FE43BCBCB082A1BB943DB \t177F4010FE56CA3336300305F1656F24C74CD1D8
\t430BDF5C56E7C94E848EE60C1C4CBDCDCD2EFD2A \t4D1BB29D63D98E422B2113B19334A25F8507EFA5"
- name: MARIADB_MAJOR
value: "10.3"
- name: MARIADB_VERSION
value: 1:10.3.10+maria bionic
- name: MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD
value: x
image: quay.io/baude/demodb:latest
name: some-mariadb
ports:
- containerPort: 3306
hostPort: 36533
protocol: TCP
resources: {}
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: true
privileged: false
readOnlyRootFilesystem: false
tty: true
workingDir: / status: {}

Create Kubernetes Pod YAML for a pod called demoweb and include a service.

$ sudo podman generate kube -s demoweb
# Generation of Kubernetes YAML is still under development!
#
# Save the output of this file and use kubectl create -f to import
# it into Kubernetes.
#
# Created with podman-0.12.2-dev
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:

creationTimestamp: 2018-12-18T15:16:06Z
labels:
app: demoweb
name: demoweb-libpod spec:
containers:
- command:
- python3
- /root/code/graph.py
env:
- name: PATH
value: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
- name: TERM
value: xterm
- name: HOSTNAME
- name: container
value: podman
image: quay.io/baude/demoweb:latest
name: practicalarchimedes
resources: {}
securityContext:
allowPrivilegeEscalation: true
capabilities: {}
privileged: false
readOnlyRootFilesystem: false
tty: true
workingDir: /root/code status: {} --- apiVersion: v1 kind: Service metadata:
creationTimestamp: 2018-12-18T15:16:06Z
labels:
app: demoweb
name: demoweb-libpod spec:
ports:
- name: "8050"
nodePort: 31269
port: 8050
protocol: TCP
targetPort: 0
selector:
app: demoweb
type: NodePort status:
loadBalancer: {}

podman(1), podman-container(1), podman-pod(1), podman-play-kube(1)

December 2018, Originally compiled by Brent Baude (bbaude at redhat dot com)