Podman Daemonless Container Management Engine

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name: "Podman Daemonless Container Management Engine"
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description: "Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI containers on Linux, Mac, and Windows. It provides a Docker-compatible CLI interface with rootless container support and pod management, making it a secure drop-in replacement for Docker in development and CI/CD workflows."
github_stars: 31227
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source: "https://github.com/containers/podman"
category: "Developer Tools"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "containers/podman"
  github_stars: 31227
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# Podman Daemonless Container Management Engine

Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI containers on Linux, Mac, and Windows. It provides a Docker-compatible CLI interface with rootless container support and pod management, making it a secure drop-in replacement for Docker in development and CI/CD workflows.

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- Support for multiple container image formats, including OCI and Docker images.
- Support for a Docker-compatible CLI interface, which can both run containers locally and on remote systems.
- Support for a REST API providing both a Docker-compatible interface and an improved interface exposing advanced Podman functionality.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- Support for running on Windows and Mac via virtual machines run by podman machine.
- Podman can be easily run as a normal user, without requiring a setuid binary.
- When run without root, Podman containers use user namespaces to set root in the container to the user running Podman.

- Source: https://github.com/containers/podman
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/containers/podman/HEAD/README.md

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/podman-daemonless-container-management-engine/)