

Podman
Podman is a daemon-less container runtime for managing containers, pods, and container images. It is intended as a counterpart to CRI-O, to provide low-level debugging not available through the CRI interface used by Kubernetes.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Red Hat
Features
- Secure containerization
- No Root Required
- Self-hosted
- Container Virtualization
- Container Orchestration
- Server Management
- Docker Container
- Kubernetes
Tags
- FOSS
- Containers
- openshift
- yaml
- lima
Podman News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Podman
Podman 5.6 released with improved Quadlet management, remote client capabilities, and morePodman 5.6 has been released as the latest update to the popular open source platform for managing ...
- Maoholguin published news article about Podman
Podman 5.2.0 released: Full libkrun support on MacOS, enhanced Quadlet features, and moreThe Podman upstream team has released Podman version 5.2.0, introducing several significant updates...
- POX published news article about Podman
Podman 4.8 debuts with over 20 new features, HyperV support, and shift to SQLite backendPodman, the open-source tool for managing containers, pods, and images, has launched its 4.8 versio...
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What is Podman?
Podman is a daemon-less container runtime for managing containers, pods, and container images. It is intended as a counterpart to CRI-O, to provide low-level debugging not available through the CRI interface used by Kubernetes. It can also act as a container runtime independent of CRI-O, creating and managing its own set of containers. Podman is a drop-in replacement for Docker.
Features:
• Fast and light. ___• Daemonless, using the fastest technologies for a snappy experience. Our UI is reactive and light on resource usage and won't drag you down.
• Secure ___• Rootless containers allow you to contain privileges without compromising functionality. Trusted by US government agencies for secure HPC at scale case study.
• Open ___• Podman is open source first and won't lock you in. Podman Desktop can be used as one tool to manage all your containers, regardless of container engine - even if you don't use Podman as your container engine.
• Compatible ___• Compatible with other OCI compliant container formats including Docker. Run your legacy Docker containers (including docker-compose files) on Podman. Learn more
• Kubernetes Ready ___• Create, start, inspect, and manage pods. Play Kubernetes YAML directly with Podman, generate Kubernetes YAML from pods, and deploy to existing Kubernetes environments.








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Red Hat's daemon-less Docker Alternative
Rootless containers, daemonless, fast and OCI compliant container formats including docker and docker-compose