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Starting a container on your container engine

With Podman Desktop, you can start a container from an image on your container engine. You can interact with the running container by using the terminal or by opening your browser to the exposed ports.

Prerequisites​

Procedure​

  1. Go to the Images component page.
  2. Click the Run Image icon corresponding to the image you want to run. For example, quay.io/podman/hello. Run Image icon
  3. Review or edit the container configuration details.
  4. Click Start Container. The Container Details page opens. starting a container
  5. Select the Logs tab to view the program running. program running
  6. Click the close icon on the right side of the page.

Verification​

  1. Go to the Containers component page.
  2. : Enter your image name, such as quay.io/podman/hello, to find your running container.
  3. Click your running container name to perform any of the following tasks:
    • View the logs
    • Inspect the container
      1. Go to Inspect.
      2. Click the content area to activate it.
      3. Press Ctrl + F on Windows and Linux, or ⌘ + F on macOS to start searching the content.
    • Generate a Kubernetes YAML manifest when your container engine is Podman:
      1. Go to Kube.
      2. Click the content area to activate it.
      3. Press Ctrl + F on Windows and Linux, or ⌘ + F on macOS to start searching the content.
      4. Optional: Copy the content to a YAML file.
      5. Optional: Reuse this file to create a pod that you can run on a Podman engine or a Kubernetes cluster. See Pod creation with Kubernetes YAML.
    • Access the terminal
    • Access the application by exposing a port:
      1. Click .
      2. View the running application at localhost:port in your browser.
    • Deploy the container to a Kubernetes cluster

Additional resources​