Add containers to a pod and manage pod lifecycle in Podman
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Documented steps
Create a pod: `podman pod create --name web --publish 8080:8080`.
Add containers that join the pod: `podman create --pod web --name web1 nginx` and `podman create --pod web --name api myapi`.
Start/stop the pod: `podman pod start web` / `podman pod stop web`; list with `podman pod list` (use --ps to also show container statuses).
Inspect with `podman pod inspect web`; check per-container status with `podman ps --pod`.
Official docs: https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-pod.1.html
Known gotchas
Port publishing (-p/--publish) is set on the pod create, not per-container, for containers added to the pod.
Containers join the pod's shared namespaces — an infra container holds the shared network; don't publish the same port twice from different pod containers.
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