Welcome to the Podman Maven Plugin wiki!

The Podman Maven Plugin is a Maven plugin to build, tag and push OCI compliant images configured using a Dockerfile/Containerfile using Podman.

About

This plugin was created based on the need to build container images with Podman, whilst not having an appropriate plugin to do so. Initially using the docker-maven-plugin from fabric8io it quickly became clear that simply swapping Docker for Podman (alias docker=podman) did not work as the plugin requires a Docker outlet to communicate with. With other plugins currently not yet available, the idea was born.

This plugin uses a ProcessExecutor from ZeroTurnaround to do its magic under water. Although this plugins' structure is similar to that from the docker-maven-plugin, its implementation is not. In an effort to keep things simple, I have chosen to use a ProcessExecutor to run podman rather than implementing the logic myself.

Also, only a subset of the podmans capabilities have been implemented (build, push and save).

This plugin is mainly inspired by the docker-maven-plugin and shows some similarities in configuration.

Requirements

• Maven 3.6.2 or later
• Java 9 or later
• Podman to be installed on the OS where this plugin will run
• Registry configuration to be present in Maven settings.
• Dockerfile to be present in the module

NOTE: This Plugin only works when a Dockerfile is in your module's folder. You cannot create a complete Dockerfile via configuration in the pom.xml.

Goals

Goal	Description	Default Lifecycle Phase
podman:build	Build images	install
podman:push	Push images to a registry	deploy
podman:clean	Clean up local storage	clean
podman:save	Save image to a file