| Podman | |
|---|---|
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 Example of Podman commands | |
| Original author | Red Hat |
| Developer | Cloud Native Computing Foundation |
| Stable release | |
| Written in | Go |
| Operating system | Linux,Windows,macOS,FreeBSD |
| Type | OS-level virtualization |
| License | Apache-2.0 license |
| Website | podman.io |
| Repository | |
Podman (pod manager) is anopen sourceOpen Container Initiative (OCI)-compliant[2]container management tool created byRed Hat used for handling containers,images,volumes, andpods on theLinuxoperating system,[3] with support formacOS andMicrosoft Windows via avirtual machine.[4] Based on the libpod library, it offersAPIs for the lifecycle management of containers, pods, images, and volumes. The API is identical to theDocker API.[5] Podman Desktop provides an alternative to Docker Desktop.[6]
The first public release of Podman (v0.2) was released in 2018, version 1.0.0 of Podman was released on January 16th, 2019.[7]
Version 1.0 of Podman Desktop was released on May 23, 2023.[8][9]
InKubeCon 2024, Red Hat announced that it will contribute Podman and Podman Desktop to theCloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), by that point, Podman Desktop had already been downloaded 1.5 million times,[10] the projects were accepted into the CNCF on January 21, 2025.[11][12]
In the 2025Stack Overflow survey, among 20,070 survey respondents identifying as professionals, 10.9% said that they had used Podman in the past year, compared to 73.8% and 30.1% for Docker andKubernetes respectively.[13]
Podman is a "daemonless" tool,[14] as opposed to other containerization systems like Docker, which uses a background service calleddockerd to manage its containers, Podman relies onsystemd for managing its container life cycles.[15]
Podman lets containers run without root privileges (rootless), meaning they can be created, run, and managed by regular users without administrator rights by usingLinux namespaces.[16]
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