In computing, Podman (pod manager) is an open source Open Container Initiative (OCI)-compliant container management tool from Red Hat used for handling containers, images, volumes, and pods on the Linux operating system, with support for macOS and Microsoft Windows via a virtual machine. Based on the libpod library, it offers APIs for the lifecycle management of containers, pods, images, and volumes. The API is identical to the Docker API. Podman Desktop provides an alternative to Docker Desktop.
Security
Podman lets containers run without root privileges (rootless), meaning they can be created, run, and managed by regular users without administrator rights by using Linux namespaces.
See also
- List of Linux containers
References
Further reading
- "Podman in Action: Secure, Rootless Containers for Kubernetes, Microservices, and More: Walsh, Daniel: 9781633439689: Books". learning.oreilly.com.
- "Podman for DevOps: Containerization reimagined with Podman and its companion tools: Arrichiello, Alessandro, Salinetti, Gianni: 9781803248233: Books". packtpub.com.
