Create an empty Podman pod and add containers to it with podman pod create
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Documented steps
Run `podman pod create [options] [name]` to create an empty pod; if no name is given a random one is generated. The pod ID is printed to STDOUT.
Add containers to the pod with `podman create --pod <pod_id_or_name> ...` (they share the pod's network, IPC, and PID namespaces by default).
Start the whole pod with `podman pod start <pod_id_or_name>`; containers start together.
Set per-pod resource limits at create time with --cpus, --memory/-m, --cpu-shares (default 1024), --cpuset-cpus, etc.
Control networking with --network (bridge for rootful, pasta for rootless by default), static --ip, --hostname, --dns, --network-alias.
Official docs: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-pod-create.1.html
Known gotchas
Containers can override pod limits (e.g. pod at --cpus=5, container joins at --cpus=4 → effective 4); containers with their own cgroup (--cgroupns=host) are NOT constrained by pod cgroup limits.
Most resource-limit options are unsupported on cgroups V1 rootless systems — non-root users may hit permission errors (Podman troubleshooting #26).
--ip static address is only usable with a single network and must be inside the pool (default 10.88.0.0/16).
Network mode 'host' gives full access to the host's abstract sockets and localhost TCP/UDP — treat as a security consideration.
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