podman/docs
Paul Holzinger 2fab7d169b
add podman volume reload to sync volume plugins
Libpod requires that all volumes are stored in the libpod db. Because
volume plugins can be created outside of podman, it will not show all
available plugins. This podman volume reload command allows users to
sync the libpod db with their external volume plugins. All new volumes
from the plugin are also created in the libpod db and when a volume from
the db no longer exists it will be removed if possible.

There are some problems:
- naming conflicts, in this case we only use the first volume we found.
  This is not deterministic.
- race conditions, we have no control over the volume plugins. It is
  possible that the volumes changed while we run this command.

Fixes #14207

Signed-off-by: Paul Holzinger <pholzing@redhat.com>
2022-06-23 18:36:30 +02:00
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source add podman volume reload to sync volume plugins 2022-06-23 18:36:30 +02:00
tutorials Fix spelling "setup" -> "set up" and similar 2022-06-22 18:39:21 +02:00
MANPAGE_SYNTAX.md [CI:DOCS] Follow-up to PR 10676 2021-06-23 20:36:20 +02:00
Makefile
README.md Manpage syntax proposal 2021-05-27 22:42:50 +02:00
dckrman.sh Add information about .containerignore to podman build man page 2021-10-12 16:42:07 -04:00
links-to-html.lua
make.bat
play.png
play_kube_support.md [CI:DOCS] Add play kube support docs 2022-05-25 13:11:45 -04:00
podman-derivative-api
remote-docs.sh Open Windows tutorial after MSI installation 2022-06-16 23:46:24 -05:00
requirements.txt Use a new markdown converter for sphinx 2021-09-16 21:10:13 +02:00
standalone-styling.css Open Windows tutorial after MSI installation 2022-06-16 23:46:24 -05:00
use-pagetitle.lua [CI:DOCS] Add titles to remote docs (windows) 2021-04-29 22:18:13 +01:00

README.md

Podman Documentation

The online man pages and other documents regarding Podman can be found at Read The Docs. The man pages can be found under the Commands link on that page.

Build the Docs

Directory Structure

Directory
Markdown source for man pages docs/source/markdown/
man pages aliases as .so files docs/source/markdown/links/
restructured text for readthedocs.io docs/rst/
target for output docs/build
man pages docs/build/man
remote linux man pages docs/build/remote/linux
remote darwin man pages docs/build/remote/darwin
remote windows html pages docs/build/remote/windows

Support files

docs/remote-docs.sh Read the docs/source/markdown files and format for each platform
docs/links-to-html.lua pandoc filter to do aliases for html files
docs/use-pagetitle.lua pandoc filter to set html document title

Manpage Syntax

The syntax for the formatting of all man pages can be found here.

API Reference

The latest online documentation is automatically generated by two cooperating automation systems based on committed upstream source code. Firstly, the Cirrus-CI docs task builds pkg/api/swagger.yaml and uploads it to a public-facing location (Google Storage Bucket - an online service for storing unstructured data). Second, Read The Docs reacts to the github.com repository change, building the content for the libpod documentation site. This site includes for the API section, some javascript which consumes the uploaded swagger.yaml file directly from the Google Storage Bucket.

Since there are multiple systems and local cache is involved, it's possible that updates to documentation (especially the swagger/API docs) will lag by 10-or-so minutes. However, because the client (i.e. your web browser) is fetching content from multiple locations that do not share a common domain, accessing the API section may show a stack-trace similar to the following:

JavaScript Stack Trace Image

If reloading the page, or clearing your local cache does not fix the problem, it is likely caused by broken metadata needed to protect clients from cross-site-scripting style attacks. Please notify a maintainer so they may investigate how/why the swagger.yaml file's CORS-metadata is incorrect, or the file isn't accessible for some other reason.

Local Testing

Assuming that you have the dependencies installed, then also install (showing Fedora in the example):

# dnf install python3-sphinx python3-recommonmark
# pip install sphinx-markdown-tables

After that completes, cd to the docs directory in your Podman sandbox and then do make html.

You can then preview the html files in docs/build/html with:

python -m http.server 8000 --directory build/html