Quick Start

If you want to to try FetchIt out run the following commands. This document will assume that the OS is Fedora, CentOS, or RHEL but FetchIt is also tested on Ubuntu. The only requirement is Podman v4.

We will assume that FetchIt will be ran as a non-privileged user. The first step will be to install Podman.

sudo dnf -y podman
systemctl start podman.socket --user

Now that Podman is available and the Podman socket is running, we can use FetchIt to manage containers. Start by creating the directory that will hold the FetchIt configuration.

mkdir ~/.fetchit

Next, create a configuration file.

vi ~/.fetchit/config.yaml

targetConfigs:
- url: https://github.com/containers/fetchit
  raw:
  - name: welcome-to-fetchit
    targetPath: examples/single-raw
    schedule: "*/1 * * * *"
    pullImage: true
  branch: main

Finally, run FetchIt.

podman run -d --rm --name fetchit -v fetchit-volume:/opt -v $HOME/.fetchit:/opt/mount -v /run/user/$(id -u)/podman/podman.sock:/run/podman/podman.sock --security-opt label=disable quay.io/fetchit/fetchit:latest

To view the running containers, run the following command.

podman ps

The sample application can be found by visting the following URL on your localhost

With this demonstration in mind you can fork the FetchIt repository or create your own repository and start defining your own applications for FetchIt.

Any changes that you make to the configuration file require a restart of the FetchIt container.