podman-kube(1) General Commands Manual podman-kube(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

podman-kube - Play containers, pods or volumes based on a structured input file

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**podman kube** *subcommand*

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

The kube command recreates containers, pods or volumes based on the input from a structured (like YAML) file input. Containers are automatically started.

Note: The kube commands in podman focus on simplifying the process of moving containers from podman to a Kubernetes environment and from a Kubernetes environment back to podman. Podman is not replicating the kubectl CLI. Once containers are deployed to a Kubernetes cluster from podman, please use **kubectl** to manage the workloads in the cluster.

# [COMMANDS](#COMMANDS)

**Command** **Man Page** **Description** apply [podman-kube-apply(1)](/man/os/podman-doc-6.0/podman-kube-apply.1) Apply Kubernetes YAML based on containers, pods, or volumes to a Kubernetes cluster down [podman-kube-down(1)](/man/os/podman-doc-6.0/podman-kube-down.1) Remove containers and pods based on Kubernetes YAML. generate [podman-kube-generate(1)](/man/os/podman-doc-6.0/podman-kube-generate.1) Generate Kubernetes YAML based on containers, pods or volumes. play [podman-kube-play(1)](/man/os/podman-doc-6.0/podman-kube-play.1) Create containers, pods and volumes based on Kubernetes YAML.

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**podman(1)**](/man/os/podman-doc-6.0/podman.1), [**podman-pod(1)**](/man/os/podman-doc-6.0/podman-pod.1), [**podman-container(1)**](/man/os/podman-doc-6.0/podman-container.1), [**podman-kube-play(1)**](/man/os/podman-doc-6.0/podman-kube-play.1), [**podman-kube-down(1)**](/man/os/podman-doc-6.0/podman-kube-down.1), [**podman-kube-generate(1)**](/man/os/podman-doc-6.0/podman-kube-generate.1), [**podman-kube-apply(1)**](/man/os/podman-doc-6.0/podman-kube-apply.1)

# [HISTORY](#HISTORY)

December 2018, Originally compiled by Brent Baude (bbaude at redhat dot com)

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Document: podman-kube(1) from podman-doc-6.0 6.0.2-r2 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/containers/podman