1podman-network-create(1)() podman-network-create(1)()
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6 podman-network-create - Create a Podman network
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10 podman network create [options] name
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14 Create a CNI-network configuration for use with Podman. By default,
15 Podman creates a bridge connection. A Macvlan connection can be cre‐
16 ated with the -d macvlan option. A parent device for macvlan can be
17 designated with the -o parent=<device> option. In the case of Macvlan
18 connections, the CNI dhcp plugin needs to be activated or the container
19 image must have a DHCP client to interact with the host network's DHCP
20 server.
21 If no options are provided, Podman will assign a free subnet and name
24 for your network.
25 Upon completion of creating the network, Podman will display the name
28 of the newly added network.
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32 --disable-dns
33 Disables the DNS plugin for this network which if enabled, can perform
34 container to container name resolution.
35 --driver, -d
38 Driver to manage the network. Currently bridge, macvlan and ipvlan are
39 supported. Defaults to bridge. As rootless the macvlan and ipvlan
40 driver have no access to the host network interfaces because rootless
41 networking requires a separate network namespace.
42 Special considerations for the netavark backend: - The macvlan driver
45 requires the --subnet option, DHCP is currently not supported. - The
46 ipvlan driver is not currently supported.
47 --gateway
50 Define a gateway for the subnet. If you want to provide a gateway ad‐
51 dress, you must also provide a subnet option. Can be specified multiple
52 times. The argument order of the --subnet, --gateway and --ip-range
53 options must match.
54 --internal
57 Restrict external access of this network. Note when using this option,
58 the dnsname plugin will be automatically disabled.
59 --ip-range
62 Allocate container IP from a range. The range must be a complete sub‐
63 net and in CIDR notation. The ip-range option must be used with a sub‐
64 net option. Can be specified multiple times. The argument order of the
65 --subnet, --gateway and --ip-range options must match.
66 --ipam-driver=driver
69 Set the ipam driver (IP Address Management Driver) for the network.
70 When unset podman will choose an ipam driver automatically based on the
71 network driver. Valid values are:
72 - host-local: IP addresses are assigned locally.
73 - dhcp: IP addresses are assigned from a dhcp server on your network.
74 This driver is not yet supported with netavark.
75 - none: No ip addresses are assigned to the interfaces.
76 You can see the driver in the podman network inspect output under the
79 ipam_options field.
80 --ipv6
83 Enable IPv6 (Dual Stack) networking. If not subnets are given it will
84 allocate a ipv4 and ipv6 subnet.
85 --label
88 Set metadata for a network (e.g., --label mykey=value).
89 --opt=option, -o
92 Set driver specific options.
93 All drivers accept the mtu option. The mtu option sets the Maximum
96 Transmission Unit (MTU) and takes an integer value.
97 Additionally the bridge driver supports the following option: - vlan:
100 This option assign VLAN tag and enables vlan_filtering. Defaults to
101 none.
102 The macvlan and ipvlan driver support the following options: - parent:
105 The host device which should be used for the macvlan interface. De‐
106 faults to the default route interface. - mode: This option sets the
107 specified ip/macvlan mode on the interface.
108 - Supported values for macvlan are bridge, private, vepa, passthru.
109 Defaults to bridge.
110 - Supported values for ipvlan are l2, l3, l3s. Defaults to l2.
111 --subnet
114 The subnet in CIDR notation. Can be specified multiple times to allo‐
115 cate more than one subnet for this network. The argument order of the
116 --subnet, --gateway and --ip-range options must match. This is useful
117 to set a static ipv4 and ipv6 subnet.
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121 Create a network with no options.
122 $ podman network create
125 cni-podman2
126 Create a network named newnet that uses 192.5.0.0/16 for its subnet.
130 $ podman network create --subnet 192.5.0.0/16 newnet
133 newnet
134 Create an IPv6 network named newnetv6 with a subnet of 2001:db8::/64.
138 $ podman network create --subnet 2001:db8::/64 --ipv6 newnetv6
141 newnetv6
142 Create a network named newnet that uses 192.168.33.0/24 and defines a
146 gateway as 192.168.133.3.
147 $ podman network create --subnet 192.168.33.0/24 --gateway 192.168.33.3 newnet
150 newnet
151 Create a network that uses a *192.168.55.0/24** subnet and has an IP
155 address range of 192.168.55.129 - 192.168.55.254.
156 $ podman network create --subnet 192.168.55.0/24 --ip-range 192.168.55.128/25
159 cni-podman5
160 Create a network with a static ipv4 and ipv6 subnet and set a gateway.
164 $ podman network create --subnet 192.168.55.0/24 --gateway 192.168.55.3 --subnet fd52:2a5a:747e:3acd::/64 --gateway fd52:2a5a:747e:3acd::10
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168 Create a Macvlan based network using the host interface eth0. Macvlan
172 networks can only be used as root.
173 # podman network create -d macvlan -o parent=eth0 --subnet 192.5.0.0/16 newnet
176 newnet
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181 podman(1), podman-network(1), podman-network-inspect(1), podman-net‐
182 work-ls(1)
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186 August 2021, Updated with the new network format by Paul Holzinger
187 pholzing@redhat.com ⟨mailto:pholzing@redhat.com⟩
188 August 2019, Originally compiled by Brent Baude bbaude@redhat.com
191 ⟨mailto:bbaude@redhat.com⟩
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