Create a custom podman network and connect containers to it
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Documented steps
Create a network with podman network create mynet; an unused subnet is auto-picked from the 10.89.0.0/24 through 10.255.255.0/24 pool, or pass --subnet 172.20.0.0/16 explicitly.
Run a container attached to it with podman run --network mynet --name web <image>.
Connect or disconnect an existing container with podman network connect mynet <container> and podman network disconnect mynet <container>.
Inspect or list networks with podman network inspect mynet and podman network ls.
Remove unused networks with podman network prune or podman network rm <name>.
Known gotchas
The default root bridge network is named podman and uses the 10.88.0.0/16 subnet; rootless default networking uses pasta, which performs no NAT and copies host interface IPs into the container namespace.
Networking is implemented by the netavark backend, and DNS by aardvark-dns registers each container name plus its short container ID as aliases.
Pasta may fail to start when there is no default route and multiple interfaces have defined routes; select the interface explicitly with the pasta -i option.
To assign a static IP use --ip with exactly one network and an address inside the pool; multiple static IPs require the --network mynet:ip=... syntax.
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