See libpod
Python podman library.
Provide a stable API to call into.
Notice: The varlink interface to Podman is currently deprecated and in maintenance mode. When Podman version 2.0 is released in 2020, it will include a fully supported REST API that will replace the varlink interface. The varlink interface will be removed from Podman at a later release. Starting with Podman v1.8.0, the REST API is available for test usage. The documentation for the REST API resides here.
Install python-podman
to the standard location for third-party
Python modules:
python3 -m pip install podman
To use this method on Unix/Linux system you need to have permission to write to the standard third-party module directory.
Else, you can install the latest version of python-podman published on
pypi to the Python user install directory for your platform.
Typically ~/.local/. (See the Python documentation for site.USER_BASE for full
details.)
You can install like this by using the --user
option:
python3 -m pip install --user podman
This method can be useful in many situations, for example, on a Unix system you might not have permission to write to the standard third-party module directory. Or you might wish to try out a module before making it a standard part of your local Python installation. This is especially true when upgrading a distribution already present: you want to make sure your existing base of scripts still works with the new version before actually upgrading.
For further reading about how python installation works you can read this documentation.
To build the podman egg and install as user:
cd ~/python-podman
python3 setup.py clean -a && python3 setup.py sdist bdist
python3 setup.py install --user
import podman
with podman.Client() as client:
list(map(print, client.images.list()))
from datetime import datetime, time, timezone
import podman
midnight = datetime.combine(datetime.today(), time.min, tzinfo=timezone.utc)
with podman.Client() as client:
for c in client.containers.list():
created_at = podman.datetime_parse(c.createdat)
if created_at > midnight:
print('Container {}: image: {} created at: {}'.format(
c.id[:12], c.image[:32], podman.datetime_format(created_at)))