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Podman

A tool for managing OCI containers and pods
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What is Podman?

It is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System. Containers can either be run as root or in rootless mode.
Podman is a tool in the Container Tools category of a tech stack.
Podman is an open source tool with 21.2K GitHub stars and 2.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Podman's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Podman?

Companies
12 companies reportedly use Podman in their tech stacks, including Antavo Enterprise Loyalty Cloud, Thybit, and Fivnex.

Developers
66 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Podman.
Pros of Podman
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Podman's Features

  • Daemonless container engine
  • Manage OCI containers and pods
  • Support for running containers and pods without root or other elevated privileges

Podman Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Podman?
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Docker Compose
With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.
Rancher
Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
Docker Swarm
Swarm serves the standard Docker API, so any tool which already communicates with a Docker daemon can use Swarm to transparently scale to multiple hosts: Dokku, Compose, Krane, Deis, DockerUI, Shipyard, Drone, Jenkins... and, of course, the Docker client itself.
Argo
Argo is an open source container-native workflow engine for getting work done on Kubernetes. Argo is implemented as a Kubernetes CRD (Custom Resource Definition).
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