podman-varlink - Man Page

podman varlink [options] uri

Starts the varlink service listening on uri that allows varlink clients to interact with podman.  If no uri is provided, a default URI will be used depending on the user calling the varlink service.  The default for the root user is unix:/run/podman/io.podman. Regular users will have a default uri of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/podman/io.podman.  For example, unix:/run/user/1000/podman/io.podman The varlink service should generally be done with systemd.  See Configuration below.

--help, -h

Print usage statement

--timeout, -t

The time until the varlink session expires in milliseconds. The default is 1 second. A value of 0 means no timeout and the session will not expire.

Run the podman varlink service accepting all default options.

$ podman varlink

Run the podman varlink service with an alternate URI and accept the default timeout.

$ podman varlink unix:/tmp/io.podman

Run the podman varlink service manually with a 5 second timeout.

$ podman varlink --timeout 5000

Users of the podman varlink service should enable the io.podman.socket and io.podman.service. This is the preferred method for running the varlink service.

You can do this via systemctl.

$ systemctl enable --now io.podman.socket

podman(1), systemctl(1)

April 2018, Originally compiled by Brent Baudebbaude@redhat.com ⟨mailto:bbaude@redhat.com⟩

podman(1), podman-system-service(1).

The man page docker-varlink(1) is an alias of podman-varlink(1).