<ul><li>FreeBSD users now have an additional option to install Podman, a popular Linux container-building and running tool, which is now available for FreeBSD 14.2.</li><li>Podman can restart containers after a host is rebooted.</li><li>To enable this on FreeBSD, mount the fdescfs file system and create a container network configuration.</li><li>Users can also run many Linux container images using FreeBSD’s Linux emulation feature.</li><li>The FreeBSD port of the Podman container engine is experimental and should only be used for evaluation and testing purposes.</li><li>Podman can be installed using a binary package or from the ports collection.</li><li>To start containers with a restart policy, use the command: $ sudo podman run -d --restart=always myimage.</li><li>To search for container images using Podman, users first need to define container registries by adding a registry to “/usr/local/etc/containers/registries.conf”.</li><li>Once a registry is defined, users can search for container images using Podman and run them on FreeBSD.</li><li>Running Linux containers on FreeBSD gives users another option in the FreeBSD world and expands the choices for where to run containers.</li></ul>

FreeBSD basics – 8 – Running Linux Containers

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