Deploying PKI Server Container as Systemd Service

Overview

Note	This page is still under construction.

This document describes the process to deploy PKI server container as a systemd service using PKI 11.5 or later.

$ dnf install -y podman

$ podman pull quay.io/dogtagpki/pki-server

To create the systemd service, execute the following command:

$ ln -sf /usr/lib/systemd/system/pki-server.service
    /etc/systemd/system/pki-server.service

Then execute:

$ systemctl daemon-reload

To start the systemd service, execute the following command:

$ systemctl start pki-server.service

It should start pki-server container:

$ podman ps
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                                ...     NAMES
8594b6b6e0c7  quay.io/dogtagpki/pki-server:latest  ...     pki-server

To monitor the systemd service:

$ journalctl -fu pki-server.service

To monitor the container:

$ podman logs -f pki-server

To stop the systemd service, execute the following command:

$ systemctl stop pki-server.service

It should stop pki-server container.

To remove the systemd service, execute the following command:

$ rm -f /etc/systemd/system/pki-server.service

Then execute:

$ systemctl daemon-reload