Welcome to the website for the Pod Manager tool (podman). This site features announcements and news around Podman, and occasionally other container tooling news. Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System. Containers can either be run as root or in rootless mode. Podman is an open-source project that is available on most Linux platforms and resides on GitHub. Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running Open Container Initiative (OCI) containers and container images on your Linux System. Podman provides a Docker-compatible command line front end that can simply alias the Docker cli, alias docker=podman. Podman also provides a socket activated REST API service to allow remote applications to launch on-demand containers. This REST API also supports the Docker API, allowing users of docker-py and docker-compose to interact with the Podman as a service.
Features
- Containers under the control of Podman can either be run by root or by a non-privileged user
- Podman manages the entire container ecosystem which includes pods, containers, container images, and container volumes
- Podman specializes in all of the commands and functions that help you to maintain and modify OCI container images
- It allows you to create, run, and maintain containers created from images in a production environment
- The Podman service runs only on Linux platforms
- Support multiple image formats including the OCI and Docker image formats