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Podman

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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.

Manage containers. Part 1 of 3. Supported engines and orchestrators include Podman, Docker, Lima, kind, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift Developer Sandbox.

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  • FreeOpen Source

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  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Mac  Containers are still Linux
  • Windows  Containers are still Linux
  • Linux
  • Red Hat
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  1.  Secure containerization
  2.  No Root Required
  3.  Self-hosted
  4.  Server Management
  5.  Container Virtualization
  6.  Docker Container
  7.  Container Orchestration
  8.  Kubernetes

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  •  819 Open Issues
  •   Updated Apr 20, 2025 
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Podman was added to AlternativeTo by jcgruenhage on Jun 21, 2018 and this page was last updated Dec 8, 2023.

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Camillot
May 19, 2020
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Red Hat's daemon-less Docker Alternative

technout
Jan 24, 2024
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Rootless containers, daemonless, fast and OCI compliant container formats including docker and docker-compose

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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