Visual Studio Code includes Podman support
The best free & open source container tools
Manage containers, pods, and images with Podman. Seamlessly work with containers and Kubernetes from your local environment.
Latest stable Podman 5.4.0-Latest stable Podman Desktop 1.17.1-Apache License 2.0
Supported Platforms
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.
A growing set of compatible tools
Cirrus CLI allows you to reproducibly run containerized tasks with Podman
GitHub Actions include support for Podman, as well as friends buildah and skopeo
Kind's ability to run local Kubernetes clusters via container nodes includes support for Podman
What people are saying about Podman
Ananth Iyer
I am using @Podman_io for Magento 2 and it is super fast than other container tools. You must try it. #Podman #Magento #magento2
Shinya Yanagihara
I recently started using @Podman_io Desktop, and I like it because it is quite easy and cozy to use. I wish I had used Podman earlier.
https://twitter.com/vitalethomas/status/1671985089675247618Fang-Pen Lin 🇺🇸🌈
Had some fun digging #podman source code and learned how OCI hooks work. Created an open source OCI hook for archiving #overlayfs mount upperdir 😄 #container
https://github.com/LaunchPlatform/oci-hooks-archive-overlayGerald Venzl 🚀
My colleague @scoter80 wrote a really cool blog post on how to run @Podman_io Desktop on #Oracle #Linux 9. Hint, hint, he demonstrates it by using Oracle #Database #Free :)
https://blogs.oracle.com/scoter/post/run-oracle-database-23c-with-podman-desktopLatest Podman News
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A decentralized team of open source container tool superheroes comes to the rescue when an asteroid storm threatens the planet. Learn about each tool—Podman, CRI-O, Buildah, Skopeo, and OpenShift—as they redesign the planet's protective shields' container deployment to protect Earth.
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