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podman

Daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI containers

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Description

Podman is a daemonless, open source, Linux-native tool designed to make it easy to find, run, build, share, and deploy applications using OCI containers and container images.

AI Summary

Daemonless container engine compatible with Docker for running OCI containers without a daemon

Capabilities

  • + Run containers without a daemon
  • + Docker-compatible CLI
  • + Rootless container support
  • + Pod management (group containers)
  • + Build OCI container images

Use When

  • → When you want a daemonless alternative to Docker
  • → When running rootless containers
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