How to prevent a container on a kube pod with a restart policy to restart on reboot

[mildred]

I have a system which uses scripts to create pods for the services I need to have running. I'm using podman kube play for that.

Unfortunately, on reboot, the containers I had running prior to reboot are restarted via the podman.service daemon podman-restart.service. I do not want to disable the restart policy on the containers because I need them to restart of something goes wrong during the container lifecycle, but on reboot the scripts I have are starting new containers anyway. I also need to use my script and cannot use the restart policy because there is a configuration to install alongside the containers I run (to enable the load balancer to reach the containers)

How to prevent the restart policy to restart containers on reboot ?

• I found no way to configure the restart policy to prevent restarting on reboot while restarting during the normal container lifecycle
• I don't know how the containers to restart on reboot are listed and stored on disk, i suppose I could remove that information prior to having podman.service started
• I did not found how podman system service could be configured to prevent restarting containers

edit: I found a relevant issue that turns around the same issue: #23207

Is there a solution for that?

Thank you

[Luap99]

I mean the simple answer is just do not enable podman-restart.service then? If the service is not started no containers will be started via that unit on boot.

[mildred]

That's true, I thought first that it was podman.service that restarted the containers, but re-reading the logs it's podman-restart.service.

I can also change the Exec line of podman-restart to filter and exclude the containers I do not want to be restarted.

That's what I'll do.