Podman
Sign in to savePodman (pod manager) is an open source Open Container Initiative (OCI)-compliant container management tool created by 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.
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- Software.title
- Podman
- Software.name
- Podman
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- Example of Podman commands
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- Red Hat
- Software.developer
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- Software.released
- 2018
- Software.programming language
- Go
- Software.operating system
- Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD
- Software.genre
- OS-level virtualization
- Software.license
- Apache-2.0 license
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Podman (pod manager) is an open source Open Container Initiative (OCI)-compliant container management tool created by 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.
==History== thumb|Podman Desktop showing terminal of a container The first public release of Podman (v0.2) was released in 2018, version 1.0.0 of Podman was released on January 16th, 2019.