Introduction to deployment and virtualization (DEVI23-02 for IMAGE_S8)

To contact us

• email: firstname.lastname (at) lrde.epita.fr
• office location: LRDE, building Paritalie (X), 3rd floor, 15 Rue Pasteur, 94270 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre

Material for each session

All material is available on the Moodle course page.

Using EPITA’s computers

Since about 2022 (at EPITA), Podman enables the use of containers is a root-less environment, and we stopped using Docker for teaching. For what we need, this is an almost unnoticeable replacement. The default configuration proposed below even alias docker=podman, so you can enjoy the same CLI-compatible API as Docker.

Podman is an open-source, Linux-native tool designed to develop, manage, and run containers and pods under the Open Container Initiative (OCI) standards. Presented as a user-friendly container orchestrator developed by Red Hat, Podman is the default container engine in RedHat 8 and CentOS 8. It is advertised as a drop-in replacement for Docker (alias docker=podman).

To activate Podman on EPITA’s NixOS lab machines:

cd /tmp/
wget -O podman-shell.nix https://bit.ly/podman-shell-nix-v20230224
nix-shell podman-shell.nix  # Run this for each new shell you start
cd -
if which podman > /dev/null ; then echo "Podman is ready to use." ; else echo "There were some error activating Podman." ; fi
docker run --rm docker.io/library/hello-world

The above instructions need to be (partly) run for every new shell you start. You may want to update your nix configuration accordingly.