Podman is a daemon-less container runtime for managing containers, pods, and container images. It is intended as a counterpart to CRI-O, to provide low-level debugging not available through the CRI interface used by Kubernetes. It can also act as a container runtime independent of CRI-O, creating and managing its own set of containers. Podman is a drop-in replacement for Docker.
Features:
• Fast and light.
___• Daemonless, using the fastest technologies for a snappy experience. Our UI is reactive and light on resource usage and won’t drag you down.
• Secure
___• Rootless containers allow you to contain privileges without compromising functionality. Trusted by US government agencies for secure HPC at scale case study.
• Open
___• Podman is open source first and won’t lock you in. Podman Desktop can be used as one tool to manage all your containers, regardless of container engine – even if you don’t use Podman as your container engine.
• Compatible
___• Compatible with other OCI compliant container formats including Docker. Run your legacy Docker containers (including docker-compose files) on Podman. Learn more
• Kubernetes Ready
___• Create, start, inspect, and manage pods. Play Kubernetes YAML directly with Podman, generate Kubernetes YAML from pods, and deploy to existing Kubernetes environments.

