Podman

Podman Overview

Podman is an OCI compliant container management tool able to run rootless containers. Managing containers without root privileges as a normal use. Podman address security concerns from previous container tools as docker.

Podman

Install

sudo dnf -y install podman

Podman desktop

flatpak install flathub io.podman_desktop.PodmanDesktop
# Run podman desktop
flatpak run io.podman_desktop.PodmanDesktop

Sample command

podman images

Container registries

Default configuration:

  • quay.io
  • docker.io Find the configuration here

/etc/containers/registries.conf

Additional tools

Buildah Build containers images.

Skopeo Analyze images before pulling them

Youki Container runtime written in Rust