Podman
More info
- Creator
- Red Hat
- Released
- Type
- Container engine (OCI)
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Website
- podman.io
- Source
- github.com/containers/podman
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Docker-compatible container runtime with no daemon, runs rootless — Red Hat's answer to Docker's dockerd model.
The CLI is deliberately drop-in: alias docker=podman works for 95 % of commands. No long-running daemon — each podman run spawns conmon + runc/crun directly. "Pods" (à la Kubernetes) are a first-class concept: group containers that share a namespace. Default on modern RHEL/Fedora. Often paired with Buildah (image build) and Skopeo (image copy) as complements.