Container Migration using Podman 2

by user:79575 4 years ago

GNU/Linux ◆ xterm-256color ◆ bash 1491 views

This demonstrates how to migrate a running container from one system to another.

First the container is started, then checkpointed and exported to a checkpoint archive. Once the checkpoint archive has been transferred to the destination system it can be used to restore the container from that checkpoint archive.

Additionally the container is restored multiple times on the destination system using different names.

Both involved system are running RHEL8 and require at least Podman 1.4.0.

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