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Podman

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Podman
Original authorRed Hat
DeveloperCloud Native Computing Foundation
Release2018 [1]
Stable release
6.0.2[2] / 22 July 2026; 0 days ago (22 July 2026)
Written inGo
Operating systemLinux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD
TypeOS-level virtualization
LicenseApache-2.0 license
Websitepodman.io Edit this on Wikidata
Repository

Podman (pod manager) is an open source Open Container Initiative (OCI)-compliant[3] container management tool created by Red Hat used for handling containers, images, volumes, and pods on the Linux operating system,[4] with support for macOS and Microsoft Windows via a virtual machine.[5] 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.[6] Podman Desktop provides an alternative to Docker Desktop.[7]

History

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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.[8]

Version 1.0 of Podman Desktop was released on May 23, 2023.[9][10]

In KubeCon 2024, Red Hat announced that it will contribute Podman and Podman Desktop to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), by that point, Podman Desktop had already been downloaded 1.5 million times,[11] the projects were accepted into the CNCF on January 21, 2025.[12][13]

Adoption

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In the 2025 Stack Overflow survey, among 20,070 survey respondents identifying as professionals, 10.9% said that they had used Podman in the past year, compared to 73.8% and 30.1% for Docker and Kubernetes respectively.[14]

Design

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Podman is a "daemonless" tool,[15] as opposed to other containerization systems like Docker, which uses a background service called dockerd to manage its containers, Podman relies on systemd for managing its container life cycles.[16]

Security

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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.[17]

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ "Podman v0.3.5". github. Retrieved 21 March 2026.
  2. ↑ "Release 6.0.2". 22 July 2026. Retrieved 22 July 2026.
  3. ↑ Walker, James (June 4, 2021). "What Is Podman and How Does It Differ from Docker?". How-To Geek.
  4. ↑ Primavera, Jacqueline (June 17, 2022). "What is Podman? The container engine replacing Docker". InfoWorld.
  5. ↑ Krill, Paul (May 23, 2023). "Red Hat puts Podman container management on the desktop". InfoWorld.
  6. ↑ "Podman | GoLand". GoLand Help.
  7. ↑ Walker, James (January 19, 2023). "Getting Started With Podman Desktop, an Open Source Docker Desktop Alternative". How-To Geek.
  8. ↑ "Podman v1.0.0 Released | Podman". podman.io. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  9. ↑ "Podman Desktop 1.0: The next-gen container management solution streamlining developers container operations". Red Hat Blog. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  10. ↑ Anderson, Tim (24 May 2023). "Podman Desktop 1.0 released: a challenge to Docker Desktop • DEVCLASS". DEVCLASS. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  11. ↑ "Red Hat to Contribute Comprehensive Container Tools Collection to Cloud Native Computing Foundation". Red Hat Blog. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  12. ↑ "Podman Desktop". CNCF. 10 September 2025. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  13. ↑ "Podman Container Tools". CNCF. 10 September 2025. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  14. ↑ "Technology | 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey". Stack Overfllow. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  15. ↑ "What is Podman? — Podman documentation". docs.podman.io. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  16. ↑ "Containers in 2025: Docker vs. Podman for Modern Developers". Linux Journal. Retrieved 30 November 2025.
  17. ↑ "Rootless containers with Podman". Red Hat Developer. 25 September 2020. Retrieved 2024-10-12.

Further reading

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