% podman-generate Podman Man Pages % Brent Baude % April 2019
podman-generate-systemd- Generate Systemd Unit file
podman generate systemd [-n|--name] [-t|--timeout] [--restart-policy] container
podman generate systemd will create a Systemd unit file that can be used to control a container. The command will dynamically create the unit file and output it to stdout where it can be piped by the user to a file. The options can be used to influence the results of the output as well.
--name -n
Use the name of the container for the start, stop, and description in the unit file
--timeout -t
Override the default stop timeout for the container with the given value.
--restart-policy Set the SystemD restart policy. The restart-policy must be one of: "no", "on-success", "on-failure", "on-abnormal", "on-watchdog", "on-abort", or "always". The default policy is on-failure.
Create a systemd unit file for a container running nginx:
$ sudo podman generate systemd nginx
[Unit]
Description=c21da63c4783be2ac2cd3487ef8d2ec15ee2a28f63dd8f145e3b05607f31cffc Podman Container
[Service]
Restart=on-failure
ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman start c21da63c4783be2ac2cd3487ef8d2ec15ee2a28f63dd8f145e3b05607f31cffc
ExecStop=/usr/bin/podman stop -t 10 c21da63c4783be2ac2cd3487ef8d2ec15ee2a28f63dd8f145e3b05607f31cffc
KillMode=none
Type=forking
PIDFile=/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay-containers/c21da63c4783be2ac2cd3487ef8d2ec15ee2a28f63dd8f145e3b05607f31cffc/userdata/c21da63c4783be2ac2cd3487ef8d2ec15ee2a28f63dd8f145e3b05607f31cffc.pid
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Create a systemd unit file for a container running nginx with an always restart policy and 1-second timeout.
$ sudo podman generate systemd --restart-policy=always -t 1 nginx
[Unit]
Description=c21da63c4783be2ac2cd3487ef8d2ec15ee2a28f63dd8f145e3b05607f31cffc Podman Container
[Service]
Restart=always
ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman start c21da63c4783be2ac2cd3487ef8d2ec15ee2a28f63dd8f145e3b05607f31cffc
ExecStop=/usr/bin/podman stop -t 1 c21da63c4783be2ac2cd3487ef8d2ec15ee2a28f63dd8f145e3b05607f31cffc
KillMode=none
Type=forking
PIDFile=/var/lib/containers/storage/overlay-containers/c21da63c4783be2ac2cd3487ef8d2ec15ee2a28f63dd8f145e3b05607f31cffc/userdata/c21da63c4783be2ac2cd3487ef8d2ec15ee2a28f63dd8f145e3b05607f31cffc.pid
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
podman(1), podman-container(1)
April 2019, Originally compiled by Brent Baude (bbaude at redhat dot com)